Report of the directors of the Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, infirmary and dispensary for the year ending 1st June, 1853.

  • Royal Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary, and Dispensary of Montrose.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Report of the directors of the Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, infirmary and dispensary for the year ending 1st June, 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For the Year ending 31s^ May, 1853. TABLE, SHOWING THE GENERAL RESULTS OF THE YEAR. M. F. Total. May 31st, 1852, Eemained,. 82 92 174 Admitted,. 38 27 65 Total, 120 119 239 M. F. Total. Discharged Cured, . ,, Improved,. 11 11 22 1 2 3 „ Dead, . 8 6 14 20 19 39 May, 31st, 1853. 100 100 200 Gentlemen, From an examination of the above table, if will be seen that, notwithstanding- the extensive alterations and additions that, within the last eighteen months, have been made in the internal arrangement and accommodation of the Asylum, the house is now again quite full—the number of inmates amounting to two hundred, thus showing a positive increase of twenty-six over the numbers as reported last year. Out of the sixty-five new cases admitted, there have been several of each sex received in a state of raving madness, attended with excessive violence. In all of these, during the continuance of the maniacal paroxysm, stimulants, such as sjnrits, wine, porter, or bitter ale, together with nutritious diet, have been administered. Tonic medicines have also been em- jiloyed in some cases, but the resistance usually experienced in tlie administration of nauseous remedies, does more harm than good, by the excitement and irritation it produces, a result of course which docs not hapjien when food of an enticing descrip¬ tion is presented to the patient.