Twenty-sixth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester. October, 1858.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Twenty-sixth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester. October, 1858. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By reference to the report of the Superintendent it will he seen that, at the close of the last year the number of patients in the hos- pital was ........ • • 372 Males, ...... . 177 Females, *..... . 195 Admitted during the last ten months, . 307 Males, ...... . 142 Females, ...... . 165 discharged during the same period, 376 Males, ...... . 180 Females, ...... . 196 Whole number of patients who have received the care of the hos¬ pital during the last ten months, 679. There are in the hospital at the close of this year 301 patients. Males, ....... 141 Females, . . . . . . .160 127 patients have been discharged from the hospital as recovered, and many more of those discharged have been very much improved; so much improved as to return to their accustomed employments. Of the 376 patients discharged, 149 were discharged to enter the new lunatic hospital which the State has erected at Northampton, and the Taunton Hospital. In previous years, when this lunatic hospital was the only one founded by the State, there has been crowded into its walls 570 patients—a number which at once de¬ stroyed in a great measure the objects of the institution and rendered it a place to be carefully avoided by those who sought the means of curing an insane relative or friend. So great an evil as this crowded condition of the hospital, demanded an immediate remedy which the State has provided by the erection of two new lunatic hospitals, one at Taunton and another at Northampton, thus excelling as she does in all her charities, in the provision she has made for the most un¬ fortunate of all human beings. In the Worcester Hospital there are private sleeping rooms for 276 patients. By placing several beds in the same room, the hospi¬ tal can accommodate 306 patients, without being obliged, as was the case previous to the opening of the Northampton Hospital, to place