Seventeenth annual report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton : October, 1872.

  • State Lunatic Hospital (Northampton, Mass.)
Date:
1873
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Credit: Seventeenth annual report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton : October, 1872. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1872.] Table No. 19. Sources of Support of 1,074 Persons Admitted. YEARS. State. Towns. OR Self Friends. Total. Men. Women. Total. Men. 1 Women. Total. Men. 1 Women. Total. Men. C a o £ Total. 1858, 2 months, 3 1 4 3 4 7 5 2 7 ii 7 18 1858-59, 8 9 17 13 9 22 19 28 47 40 46 86 1859-60, 12 11 23 9 5 14 28 32 60 49 48 97 1860-61, 11 15 26 12 8 20 35 23 58 58 46 104 1861-62, 6 8 14 8 7 15 19 5 24 33 20 53 1862-63, 10 11 21 11 4 15 30 21 51 51 36 87 1863-64-, 9 10 19 6 4 10 20 15 35 35 29 64 1864-65, 6 13 19 7 6 13 25 9 34 38 28 66 1865-66, 12 15 27 6 2 8 33 14 47 51 31 82 1866-67, 7 12 19 8 5 13 27 23 50 42 40 82 1867-68, 11 19 30 9 6 15 29 35 64 49 60 109 1868-69, 14 20 34 6 9 15 32 20 52 52 49 101 1869-70, 24 16 40 6 11 17 33 35 68 63 62 125 Total, • « 133 160 293 104 o 00 184 335 262 597 572 1 502 1,074 More than half of the whole number were private patients, or “ boarders.” A little more than one-sixth were supported by towns, and about three-fourteenths bv the State. It will be re- membered, however, that nearly all of the patients brought from the other hospitals were wards of the State; so that this class - has at all times constituted more than one half of the patients resident in the house. At the close of the period of these sta¬ tistics, September 30, 1870, the whole number resident was 408, of whom 218 were supported by the State, 66 by towns, and 124 by individuals. Occupation. The twentieth table exhibits the extent to which the different occupations of the men were represented among