Twenty-sixth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 15th June, 1846 with the report of the medical officers.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics
Date:
1846
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Credit: Twenty-sixth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 15th June, 1846 with the report of the medical officers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL STATISTICAL TABLES, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 15th JUNE 1846. (The Year ending on the third Monday of June, agreeably to Charter.) TABLE I. YEARLY RETURN OF LUNATICS IN THE DUNDEE ROYAL LUNATIC ASYLUM. From 16th June 1845 to 15th June 1846. Males. Females. Total. Bemained 16tli June 1845, 105 91 196 Admitted during the above period, 14 20 34 Ditto, re-admissions, 10 6 16 Total, . 129 117 246 Discharged cured, 15 15 30 Ditto, improved, 5 2 7 Ditto, by desire, 3 5 8 Died, .... 6 2 8 •\ -M o H 29 24 53 Bemaining 15th June 1840, 100 93 193 Total, 129 117 246 Daily average number of patients in the ] House, . J J- 105 96 201 Highest number in the Asylum at any one ] time, . . . J |. 109 99 208