Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane for the year 1849.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane for the year 1849. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHYSICIAN’S ANNUAL REPORT TO THE MANAGERS OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH ASYLUM FOR THE YEAR 1849. (Read at the Annual Meeting of the Contributors held on the 28th January, 1850.) The general history of the Institution during the past year may be summed up in the following table, shewing the number of pa¬ tients admitted and dismissed, the ratio of cures and deaths, and the average number resident:— Table I.—General Results of the year. Males. Females. Total. Number of Inmates at the close of 1848, 228 245 473 Admitted during the year 1849, . 109 156 265 Total number under Treatment, 337 401 738 M. F. T. Discharged, 71 112 183 M. F. i* Of whom were Cured, 42 7 7 119 Uncured, 29 35 64 Died, . ’ . . - 42 37 79 113 149 262 Number of Inmates at the close of 1849, 224 252 476 Average number resident during the year Males, 225-1. Females, 248*56. Total, 473-16, Although the number of admissions, 265, has exceeded that of any previous year, the average number resident has been somewhat ]es3 than in 1848. Indeed, it has been kept very nearly what it