The thirty-fifth report of the superintendent of the West-Riding of York Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1855
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Credit: The thirty-fifth report of the superintendent of the West-Riding of York Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT. On the conclusion of this my first year of residence as Superintendent of your Asylum, I have the honor to place before you the general results of management in the usual tabular forms. During the past year, 1854, The admissions have been . . . . . .328 Males . . . . 157 Females . . 171 Discharged cured:—Males 65—Females . . 66 Relieved . ,,11 „ . 10 Died .... ,,61 „ ... 53 Of the admissions, I much regret I am compelled to reiterate the statements made in previous reports, that patients are brought to the Asylum in such an extremely exhausted bodily condition, that our mortality is considerably increased thereby; and, unhap¬ pily, all we can do for these cases is, by careful nursing and a large expenditure of extra diets, to sustain life for a short time after admission, whereas, had they been placed earlier under treatment, probably many might have recovered; my previous