Tenth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1842.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
Date:
1843
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Credit: Tenth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1842. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been discharged from the hospital, during the same period, thirteen hun¬ dred and nineteen persons. Six hundred and seventy-six of this number were restored to reason. In the course of the present year, there have been four hundred and twenty-nine different patients in the hospital. At the commencement of the year, there were two hundred and thirty-one ; there were admitted, in the course of the year, one hundred and ninety- eight ; and there are now remaining in the hospital, at the end of the year, two hundred and thirty-eight. Of these, forty are cases of a less duration than one year, and one hundred and ninety-eight of a longer duration than one year. There have been discharged, during the year, one hundred and ninety-one : of these, twelve died, eighty-eight recov¬ ered, fifty-two were sent away as incurable and harmless, two were dis¬ charged by the judge of probate of the county of Worcester as incura¬ ble and not harmless, twelve were sent to the jails or houses of correc¬ tion of the counties from which they came, by the Trustees, for want of room in the hospital, and twenty-five were discharged as improved.— Of the eighty-eight recovered, seventy were recent cases, or cases of less duration than one year, and eighteen old cases of a longer duration than one year. Twenty-three of the twenty-five cases discharged im¬ proved were old cases and two recent cases. For a more full and de¬ tailed statistical account of the hospital, the Trustees refer to the inte¬ resting report of the superintendent, which is annexed, and made a part of this. The Trustees have made the monthly ^visits required by law, during the past year, without a single failure ; and the record, which it is their duty to make of these visits, bears testimony to the neatness and uni¬ form good order which have prevailed in every part of the institution, and to the fidelity and skill with which all the officers and attendants of the hospital have discharged their respective duties, and to the com¬ fort and general contentment which the patients have, on all these occasions, manifested. As the Trustees anticipated, when they made their last Annual Re¬ port, Dr. Chandler, who had been, from the commencement of this institution, the faithful and skilful assistant of Dr. Woodward, has been called to a higher sphere of duty and usefulness, to take the charge of the State Lunatic Hospital lately erected in New Hampshire. To sup¬ ply this vacancy, the Trustees have appointed Dr. John R. Lee, who has had much experience in the treatment of insanity ; and it gives them pleasure to be able to state, that he has discharged the responsi¬ ble duties of the office, in a manner entirely satisfactory to the superin-
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