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Credit: The curability of insanity : a statistical study. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![b. Chapman's 50,409 cases, at 46 British Asylums. Recoveries 43.79 per cent. 3. Not first attach; duration less than twelve months. a. Earle's 4,708 eases, at 23 British Asylums. Recoveries 55.37 per ceut. b. Chapman's 19,574 cases, at 46 British Asylums. Recoveries. 53.61 per cent. In neither of the three foregoing classes have we any American statistics, because our institutions, in the tabulation of their cases, make no discrimination which would render such a classification possible. 4. All cases of duration less than twelve months. a. Earle's 15,697 cases, at 23 British Asylums. Recoveries 47.49 per cent. b. Chapman's 69,983 cases, at 46 British Asylums. Recoveries 46.52 per cent. c. Earle's 8.063 cases, at 15 American Institutions. Recoveries 38.59 per cent. 5. All recoveries, calculated on all admissions. a. Chapman's 93,443 cases, at 46 British Asylums. Recoveries 37.95 per cent. h. Earle's 33,318 cases, at 39 [15+24] American Institutions. Recoveries 29.15 per cent. c. Earle's 23,052 cases; 3d period at 20 American Institutions. Recoveries 29.91 per cent. d. Earle's 14,372 cases; in one year at 58 American Institutions. Recoveries 27.88 per cent. It will lie perceived that, so far as these statistics are an index, the recoveries iu British Asylums, both of recent cases and of all cases admitted, exceed the recoveries iu the x\merican institutions by between 8 and 9 per cent. The most important general conclusions to be derived from the statistics included in this paper, are, first, that the old claim of curability in a very large majority of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21026063_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
