Report of the directors of the Montrose Lunatic Asylum, infirmary and dispensary (instituted 1782) for the year ending 1st June, 1850.

  • Royal Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary, and Dispensary of Montrose.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Report of the directors of the Montrose Lunatic Asylum, infirmary and dispensary (instituted 1782) for the year ending 1st June, 1850. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF ASYLUM TABLE I, SHOWING THE GENERAL RESULTS OF THE YEAR. Males. Females. Total There remained, May 31, 1849,. .69 73 142 Admitted during the year,.. . .25 25 50 Total under Treatment,. .94 98 192 j Discharged Cured, . 10 17 i ,, Improved,... . 2 2 4 Died, ... .10 14 24 19 26 45 Remaining, May 31, 1850, „. . .75 72 147 My Lord and Gentlemen, From the above Table it will be observed that 25 males and 25 females, making in all a total of 50 patients, have been ad¬ mitted during the past year into the Asylum. In so large a number it is to be expected that a great variety of cases must have been brought under treatment, and many interesting facts recorded concerning the phenomena of diseased mind. It is to be regretted, however, that several of these Patients have been admitted from a great distance, and, at the same time, belonging to the labouring classes, have not been subjected either to me¬ dical or moral treatment until their management became too much for the limited resources of their relatives, or until the mental disorder had become of long standing, whereby the sub¬ sequent probability of cure has been much diminished. Of these, again, some were admitted in a very enfeebled con¬ dition from bodily illness, and died within a very short time of their reception. I allude more particularly to the cases marked 6 and 17 in Table 7. The first of these, marked No. 6, wras that of a female, aged 29 years, admitted into the Asylum on the 18th of August, 1849, labouring under an attack of Puer¬ peral Mania, of three weeks’ duration. From the time of her reception till the date of her death—September 2, 1849—she was constantly confined to bed, and required the almost con¬ stant and undivided attention of a separate nurse. She died of Peritonitis.