Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane : a lecture on the management of lunatic asylums and the treatment of the insane, delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838 : with statistical tables, illustrative of the complete practicability of the system advocated in the lecture / by Robert Gardiner Hill.

  • Hill, Robert Gardiner, 1811-1878.
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[1839]
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Credit: Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane : a lecture on the management of lunatic asylums and the treatment of the insane, delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838 : with statistical tables, illustrative of the complete practicability of the system advocated in the lecture / by Robert Gardiner Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    *TABLE XXXYII. Number of the Patients Admitted, and of those Discharged from the BooJcs, From January 1, 1837, to December 31, 1837. M. F. Tot. Eemained January 1, 1837 53 32 85 Admitted in 1837 16 17 33 Re-admitted in 1837 8 4 12 Discharged in 1837 27 15 42 Remaining December 31, 1837 50 38 88 *TABLE XXXVIII. State of the Patients when Discharged from the Boohj From January 1, 1837, to December 31, 1837. Recovered 15 Improved 6 Removed during treatment 5 Improper object 0 By order of the Board 1 Escaped 0 Dead 15 *TABLE XXXIX. Causes of the Deaths in 1837. Consumption 4 Dropsy 1 Epilepsy 1 Gradual Exhaustion 1 Old Age 3 Paralysis 1 Typhus Fever 3 Ulcerated Bowels 1