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Credit: The curability of insanity : a statistical study. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and the smallest, 26.96 per cent, at Columbia, S. C. Of the thirteen others, the proportion at one was less tban 30 per cent; at two, between 30 and 35 per cent; at five, between 35 and 40 per cent; and at five between 40 and 45 per cent. Table IV. Whole Number of Recoveries, and Recoveries of Cases of Less Than Twelve Months' Duration, at Fifteen American Institutions. Asylums. Admissions. Under 12 mos. Elgin Concord Worcester Taunton Utica Harrisburg ... . Dixmont Dayton Ossawatomie... McLean Northampton .. Danvers Columbia, S. C. Boston Winnebago. ... Whule number. Totals, and Mean per cent I 68 488 334 593 824 1,518 395 646 007 398 207 224 962 408 174 285 1,017 536 1,254 1,019 2,184 716 1,117 977 707 308 511 2,078 702 275 561 Discharged Recoveries. Under 12 mos 197 148 191 300 601 117 238 285 105 81 75 361 110 66 117 Per ct.of recent eases. Whole number 40.37 44.31 32.21 30.41 43.54 29.02 36.84 40.95 41.46 39.13 33.48 37.53 26.90 37.93 41.05 246 161 254 369 716 133 288 342 217 89 104 458 161 80 162 Per cent Per ct.of t-er cent B], recov. of whole cries on number., «£,£. 24.19 30.04 30.26 22.79 32.78 18.58 25.78 35.00 30.69 28.90 20.35 22.04 22.93 29.09 28.88 50.41 48.20 42.83 44.78 47.17 33.67 44.58 56.34 54.52 42.99 46.43 47.61 39.46 45.98 56.84 8.063 14,562 3.112 .59 3.780 25.90 46.88 Finding that, in despite of the traditional 75 to 90 per cent of some of the fathers, not one of these hospitals discharged even 47 per cent of recoveries of recent cases, while the mean, or average of all of them was less than 39 per cent, I studied the relation between the whole number of recoveries and the number of admis- sions of recent cases. The whole number of recoveries is larger by 668 than the recoveries of recent cases; and the number of admissions of recent cases is 6,40k smaller than the whole number of admissions. Yet, strange as it may appear, the total of recoveries is only 46.88 per cent of the admissions of recent cases! The largest proportion, 56.84 per cent, is at Winnebago ;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21026063_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
