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FIFTH  ANNUAL  REPORT 


THE  TRUSTEES 


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WORCESTEK 


Foe  the  Year  ending  September  30,  1882. 


BOSTON : 

WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO.,  STATE  PRINTERS, 

18  Post  Office  Square. 

1883. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  ASYLUM. 


TRUSTEES. 

Rev.  JOHN  F.  MOORS, Gkeenfield. 

ROBERT  W.  HOOPER,  M.D., Boston. 

RUFUS  D,  WOODS, Enfield. 

THOMAS  H.  GAGE,  M.D., Worcester. 

FRANCIS  H.  DEWEY Worcester. 


RESIDENT  OFFICERS. 

HOSEA  M.  QUINBY,"  M.D.,         ....  Superintendent. 

E.  MEADE  PERKINS,  M.D.,       ....  Assistant  Physician. 

CHARLES  H.  SAFFORD. Steward. 

SOPHIA  N.  GRAVES, Matron. 

CLARENCE  R.  MACOMBER,      ....  Clerk. 

WILLIAM  SHERMAN, Engineer. 


TREASURER. 


ALBERT  WOOD, 


Worcester. 


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To  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  and  the  Honorable  Council  of  the  Com- 

mo7iweaUh. 

The  charge  of  the  Asyhim  for  the  Chronic  Insane,  at 
Worcester,  is  entrusted  to  the  same  Board  of  Trustees  as 
that  of  the  Lunatic  Hospital. 

We  accordingly  present  tliis  our  fifth  annual  report. 

In  1881  the  legislature  granted  power  to  the  Trustees  to 
allow  the  city  of  Worcester  to  take  a  strip  of  land  on  Sum- 
mer Street  about  fifteen  feet  wide  and  twelve  hundred  feet  in 
length,  for  the  purpose  of  widening  that  street.  This  work, 
nearly  done  by  the  order  of  the  County  Commissioners,  is  now 
completed.  The  heavy  stone  wall  on  the  west  line  of  the 
asylum  grounds  has  been  taken  down,  the  ground  behind  it 
carefully  graded,  and  the  wall  set  back  fifteen  feet,  and  re- 
built in  a  very  thorough  and  substantial  manner.  A  new 
stone  stairway  is  made  to  lead  from  the  path  in  front  of  the 
asylum.  The  Trustees  secured  the  services  of  a  competent 
inspector  to  oversee  the  work,  and  secure  a  fiiithful  fulfil- 
ment of  the  contract.  We  are  happy  to  believe  that  the 
work  has  been  well  done,  and  that  when  quite  completed  the 
asylum  grounds  will  receive  no  detriment,  while  the  change 
will  be  a  great  benefit  to  the  city. 

Of  course  this  work  has  been  done  at  no  cost  to  the  asylum 
beyond  the  trifling  sum  we  have  paid  for  its  inspection. 

These  buildings,  now  occupied  as  the  Asylum  for  the 
Chronic  Insane,  were    erected   fifty  years    ago.      The   first 


70  ASYLUM  FOR   CHEONIC  INSANE.        [Oct. 

buildings  of  the  sort  in  the  State,  they  met  and  answered  all 
the  demands  of  that  time. 

But  the  experience  of  a  half-century  has  added  much  to 
our  knowledge  of  what  is  required  for  health  and  comfort  of 
patients  in  such  an  institution.  For  years,  under  the  expec- 
tation universally  entertained  that  these  buildings  would  not 
be  retained  after  the  new  hospital  was  opened,  very  little  was 
done  in  the  way  of  repairs,  and  nothing  in  the  way  of  im- 
provement. 

After  the  act  of  the  legislature  in  1877,  establishing  a 
"  Temporary  Asylum  for  the  Chronic  Insane,"  and  granting 
the  land  and  buildings  of  the  old  hospital  for  that  purpose, 
it  was  felt  that  extensive  repairs  and  improvements  must  be 
made,  and  they  have  been  going  on  the  last  few  years,  under 
the  careful  and  wise  administration  of  Dr.  Quinby.  The 
halls  have  been  made  more  airy  and  cheerful, and  afar  better 
system  of  ventilation  secured,  and  the  health  and  comfort  of 
the  patients  and  attendants  materially  increased. 

The  cost  of  this  work  has  been  met  from  the  current  re- 
ceipts. The  widening  of  Summer  Street,  to  which  reference 
has  been  made,  threw  upon  the  asylum  grounds  a  great  mass 
of  earth,  and  Dr.  Quinby  has  employed  a  portion  of  the 
patients  all  summer  in  wheeling  this  earth  to  other  parts  of 
the  asylum  grounds,  thus  furnishing  them  an  occupation 
which  was  not  above  their  capacity,  and  at  the  same  time 
improving  the  general  appearance  of  the  grounds. 

This  asylum  has  no  private  patients  and  depends  entirely 
for  its  support  on  the  income  derived  from  State,  city  and 
town  patients,  at  a  rate  established  by  law.  Yet  we  are 
pleased  to  say  that  notwithstanding  the  high  prices  of  pro- 
visions this  past  year,  the  institution  is  self-supporting,  and 
asks  no  appropriation  from  the  State. 

We  believe  that  the  institution  has  been  manao-ed  with  a 
wise  economy,  but  without  parsimony.  From  careful  in- 
quiries we  have  made,  we  are  satisfied  that  good,  wholesome 
food,  and  in  sufficient  quantities,  has  been  furnished  to  the 
patients  in  a  neat  and  palatable  form,  and  that  the  patients  are 
kindly  treated  and  have  every  comfort  their  condition  allows. 

We  call  your  attention  to  the  financial  report  of  the 
Treasurer,  and  to  the  detailed  report  of  the  Superintendent. 


1882.]  PUBLIC  DOCUMENT  — No.  23.  71 

Dr.  Qiiinby,  the  Superintendent,  possesses  in  a  high  de- 
gree the  confidence  of  the  Trustees  as  a  judicious  and  skilful 
manager  of  the  institution,  both  as  regards  its  finances,  and 
his  care  and  treatment  of  the  unfortunate  class  committed  to 
his  charge. 

There  has  been  little  change  in  the  resident  officers  for  the 
past  year.  We  relieve  them  to  be  competent  and  reliable  in 
their  respective  places,  and  that  they  deserve  the  respect  and 
thanks  of  the  public  for  the  faithful  manner  in  which  they 
discharge  the  arduous  and  often  painful  duties  intrusted  to 
them. 

JOHN   F.  MOOES. 

R.  W.  HOOPER. 

RUFUS   D.  WOODS. 

THOMAS   H.  GAGE. 

FRANCIS   H.  DEWEY. 


72 


ASYLUM  FOR   CHRONIC   INSANE. 


[Oct. 


YALUE   OF  STOCK    ANT>   SUPPLIES. 


Sept.  30,  1882. 

Live  stock, 

$175  00 

Carriages  and  agricultural  implements,       .        . 

503  65 

Machinery  and  mechanical  fixtures,     .... 

3,300  00 

Beds  and  bedding  in  inmates'  department,  . 

8,354  90 

Other  furniture  in  inmates'  department, 

8,231  20 

Personal  property  of  State  in  Superintendent's  department 

8,721  25 

Ready-made  clothing, 

],399  38 

Dry  goods, 

942  14 

Provisions  and  groceries, 

5,441  18 

Drugs  and  medicines, 

175  42 

Fuel, 

3,151  30 

Library,  

120  00 

35,515  42 


1882.] 


PUBLIC  DOCUMENT  — No.  23. 


73 


TEEASUREK'S    EEPORT, 


To  the  Trustees  of  the  Asylum  for  the  Chronic  Insane. 

Gentlemen  : —  I  herewith  submit  my  fifth  annual  report 
on  the  finances  of  the  Asylum  for  the  Chronic  Insane  for  the 
year  ending  Sept.  30,  1881  : — 


Receipts. 

Cash  on  hand,  Sept,  30, 1880  :— 
Cash  belonging  to  asylum,     .        .        .        . 
Deposits  of  inmates, 

Amounts  received : — 
From  the   Commonwealth   for  support  of 

patients, 

cities  and  towns  for  support  of  patients, 

other  sources, 

patients  (on  deposit),      .        .        .        . 


The  expenditures  for  the  year  have  been 
as  follows : — 

Salaries  and  wages, 

Extra  labor  (ordinary),  .        .        .        . 


Provisions  and  supplies,  viz. 
Meats  of  all  kinds, . 
Fish  of  all  kinds,    . 
Fruit  and  vegetables. 

Flour 

Grain  and  meal  for  table. 
Grain,  meal  and  hay  for  stock. 
Tea  and  coffee. 
Sugar  and  molasses. 
Milk,  butter  and  cheese, 
Salt  and  other  groceries. 
All  other  provisions. 

Amount  carried  forward, 


$5,087  52 

487  39 

$5,674  91 

$17,867  33 

49,005  82 

1,0'S4  86 

8  75 

67,936  76 

$73,511  67 

$20,164  41 
124  97 

$20,289  38 

$4,040  61 
702  75 

2,205  40 

3,880  51 
87  44 

253  22 

673  09 

1,429  32 

6,247  15 

627  56 

2,658  08 

22,805  13 

13,094  51 


74 


ASYLUM  FOR   CHRONIC  INSANE.        [Oct. 


Amount  brought  forward. 
Clothing  and  niaterial,  . 
Fuel  and  light, 

Medicine  and  medical  supplies, 
Furniture,  beds  and  bedding. 
Transportation  and  travelling, 
Repairs  (ordinary), 
All  other  current  expenses,    . 


Total  current  expenses, 
Repairs  (extraordinary). 
Refunded  inmates  from  deposits, 


3,094  41 


Total  amount  expended,     . 
Cash  on  hand,  Sept.  30,  1882, 


Resources. 


Cash  on  hand, 

Due  from  the  Commonwealth, 

cities  and  towns,     . 

other  sources, 


Liabilities. 
Due  for  supplies  and  expeuses, 
salaries  and  wages,  . 
inmates  (cash  on  deposit). 


$2,831  52 

6,288  16 

348  93 

1,998  37 

296  46 

3,000  00 

1,926  17 


$4,758  80 
6  15 


$8,962 

60 

4,532 

75 

12,679  84 

63 

26 

$7,150 

28 

1,723 

43 

489 

99 

16,689  61 


$59,784  12 


4,764  95 

34,549  07 
8,962  60 

r3,511  67 


5,238  45 


9,363  70 


Total  surplus, $16,874  75 

Respectfully  submitted, 

ALBERT  WOOD, 

Treasurer. 


Worcester,  Mass.,  Oct  10,  1882. 

The  undersigned  has  this  day  carefully  compared  the  Treasurer's  statement  of 
expenditures  for  the  year  ending  Sept.  30,  1882  with  the  vouchers  which  are  on  file 
at  the  Asylum,  and  found  it  to  be  correct. 

THOMAS  H.  GAGE, 

Auditor  of  Accounts. 


1882.]  PUBLIC  DOCUMENT  — No.  23.  75 


SUPEKIlSrTEII^DEIsrT'S   REPORT. 


To  the  Trustees  of  the  Asylum  for  the  Chronic  Insane. 

Gentlemen  :  — ■  At  the  close  of  the  last  official  year  there 
were  remaining  in  the  asylum  367  patients, — 168  mules  and 
199  females. 

During  the  year  49  males  and  22  females  have  been 
admitted,  6  males  and  19  females  have  been  discharged,  and 
21  males  and  11  females  have  died;  leaving  at  the  end  of 
the  year  381  patients,  — 190  males  and  191  females. 

Of  the  number  discharged,  2  males  have  been  removed  to 
their  homes  by  friends,  2  females  and  1  male  have  been 
removed  to  poor-houses,  17  females  and  2  males  have  been 
transferred  by  the  Board  of  Health,  Lunacy  and  Charity, 
and  1  male  eloped. 

The  general  health  of  the  inmates  of  the  asylum  has  been 
good  through  the  year.  The  diseases  which  have  proved 
fatal  have  been  chronic  in  every  case,  and  the  direct  result 
of  brain  trouble. 

Ten  males  and  1  female  have  died  of  the  exhaustion  due 
to  chronic  mania,  6  males  and  3  females  of  epilepsy,  3  males 
and  5  females  of  phthisis,  2  males  and  1  female  of  apoplexy, 
and  1  female  of  old  asfe. 

Kecos^nizino;  the  fact  that  nothins"  tends  more  to  allay 
undue  excitement,  to  ward  off  the  listlessness  incident  to 
chronic  dementia,  to  increase  the  bodily  health  of  the  patient, 
and  to  insure  quiet  in  the  wards  both  by  day  and  night,  than 
active,  healthy  work  in  the  open  air,  it  has  been  the  con- 
stant effort  of  the  management  to  devise  methods  for  the 
employment  of  as  large  a  number  of  the  inmates  of  the 
asylum  as  possible.     To  this  end  an  extra  male  attendant  has 


76  ASYLUM   FOR   CHRONIC   INSANE.        [Oct. 

been  employed,  during  the  past  year,  to  whom  has  been 
assigned  the  duty  of  getting  out  those  patients  not  ah'eady 
employed,  finding  occupation  for  them,  and  interesting  them 
therein.  In  this  way  from  20  to  25  persons  have  been  added 
to  our  regular  working  force.  During  the  spring  and  sum- 
mer they  have  been  employed,  for  the  most  part,  in  grading 
about  the  asylum  grounds.  Every  one  has  done  a  fair  day's 
work,  and  most  of  them  have  shown  marked  improvement 
both  in  bodily  health  and  mental  condition.  The  practical 
results  of  the  effort,  if  not  all  that  could  be  desired,  have 
been  in  a  high  degree  encouraging  and  warrant  the  suppo- 
sition that  still  more  may  be  accomplished  in  this  direction. 

Repairs  have  been  continued  during  the  year  according  as 
our  means  would  warrant.  In  the  North  Johonnot,  the  air- 
chamber  has  been  carried  from  the  south  to  the  north  side 
of  the  ward,  for  the  purpose  of  more  easily  warming  the 
same  ;  the  dining-rooms  torn  out  and  entirely  reconstructed, 
and  ventilating  flues  introduced  wherever  practicable. 

Six  cupolas — to  conform  to  those  already  placed  upon 
the  two  wings,  and  which  have  proved  so  satisfactory  for  the 
purposes  of  ventilation  —  have  been  built  during  the  sum- 
mer. Each  tier  of  wards  now  has  a  ventilator  eight  feet 
square,  and  it  only  remains  to  enlarge  the  flues  in  these 
wards  to  gain,  throughout  the  house,  as  satisfactory  a  system 
of  ventilation  as  that  already  secured  in  the  newly  repaired 
wings. 

The  boilers,  upon  which  we  depend  for  the  heating  and 
ventilating  of  the  house,  for  the  power  used  in  our  laundry, 
and  for  the  steam  by  which  most  of  our  cooking  is  done, 
■^ere  put  in  when  the  present  system  of  heating  was  first 
introduced  —  twenty-five  years  ago.  They  are  flue  boilers, 
four  in  number,  tw^o  of  which  had  become  so  much  worn  as 
to  be  nnsafe.  These,  therefore,  have  been  removed  and 
replaced  by  a  tubular  boiler,  nineteen  feet  long  by  five  feet 
in  diameter,  at  an  expense  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars. 

The  cost  of  support  has  been  13.07  per  patient. 

We  have  again  to  thank  the  publishers  of  "  The  Evening 
Gazette  "  for  a  copy  of  their  paper;  "  The  Hosj)ital  News- 
paper Society,"  of  Boston,  for  books,  papers  and  Christmas 
Cards ;  Francis  E.  Thompson  for  readings,  and  Messrs.  Ray- 


1882.]  PUBLIC  DOCUMENT  — No.  23.  77 

more,  Pollard  and  Barber  for  the  enjoyable  entertainments 
given  the  patients  at  various  times  during  the  winter. 

No  change  has  tak-en  place  during  the  year  in  our  official 
staff,  and  I  am  glad  to  have  this  opportunity  of  acknowledg- 
ing my  indebtedness  to  each  and  all  of  them  for  the  zeal 
which  they  have  shown  in  their  several  departments,  and  for 
the  material  aid  which  they  have  given  me  in  conducting  the 
affairs  of  the  asylum. 

H.  M.  QUINBY, 

8ujperintendent. 

Asylum  for  the  Chronic  Insane, 
October  2,  1882. 


7.8; 


ASYLUM  FOR   CHRONIC  INSANE.        [Oct. 


TABLES  FOR  UNIFORM   STATISTICS 


MASSACHUSETTS     HOSPITALS    AND     ASYLUMS     FOR     THE 

INSANE. 

(Approved  by  the  Board  of  Health,  Lunacy  and  Charity,  April  3,  1880.) 


By  the  act  of  the  legislature  establishing  an  Asylum 
for  the  Chronic  Insane,  it  was  provided,  "  That  the  inmates 
thereof  shall  consist  only  of  such  chronic  insane  as  may  be 
transferred  thereto  by  the  Board  of  State  Charities  in  the 
manner  provided  in  section  four,  chapter  two  hundred  and 
forty,  of  the  acts  of  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
three."     (Statutes,  1877,  chap.  227.) 

All  the  patients  of  the  asylum,  therefore,  have  been  for- 
mer inmates  of  one  or  more  hospitals  in  the  State ;  and 
whenever  in  these  tables  they  appear  as  "  first  admissions," 
they  are  only  to  be  regarded  as  first  admissions  to  this 
asylum. 

1.   General  Statistics  of  tlie  Year. 


Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Patients  in  hospital  Oct.  1,  1881, 
Admissions  witliin  the  year, 

168 
49 

199 
22 

367 

71 

Whole  number  of  cases  within  the  year. 
Discharges  within  the  year : 
Viz    as  recovered,     .         .         . 

as  much  improved,    .... 

as  improved, 

as  unimproved,          .... 
Deaths, 

217 

1 

5* 
21 

221 

19 
11 

438 

1 
24 
32 

Patients  remaining  Sept.  30,  1882, 
Viz.,  supported  as  State  patients,      . 
as  town  patients, 
as  private  patients,  . 
Number  of  different  persons  within  the  year, 

admitted, 

recovered,       ..... 
Daily  average  number  of  patients, 

190 

72 

118 

217 
49 

181.79 

191 

32 

159 

221 
22 

193.80 

381 
104 

277 

438 
71 

375.59 

*One  eloped. 


1882.] 


PUBLIC  DOCUMENT  — No.  23. 


79 


2.    Monthly  Admissions,  Discharges  and  Averages. 


MONTHS 

Admissions. 

Discharges. 
(Including  Deaths.) 

Daily  Average  of 
Tatients  in  thk   Hods 

Ma. 

Fe.       Tot. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

1881. 

October, 

1 

- 

1 

3 

1 

4 

166.97 

198.35 

365.32 

November,     . 

1 

2 

3 

- 

] 

1 

166.53 

198.37 

364.90 

December,     . 

- 

- 

- 

1 

1 

2 

166.29 

197.41 

363.70 

1883. 

January, 

- 

- 

- 

1 

1 

2 

165.48 

197.68 

363.16 

February, 

33 

- 

33 

7 

- 

7 

184.00 

197.00 

381.00 

March,  . 

- 

- 

- 

- 

1 

1 

191.00 

196.70 

387.70 

April,     . 

- 

- 

- 

4 

2 

6 

189.90 

194.53 

384.48 

May, 

1. 

- 

1 

2 

- 

2 

186.41 

194.00 

380.41 

June, 

13 

20 

33 

3 

17 

20 

186.20 

193.16 

379.36 

July,       . 

- 

- 

- 

4 

2 

6 

192.93 

196.32 

389.25 

August, 

- 

- 

- 

- 

3 

3 

192.00 

194.16 

386.16 

September, 

49 

22 

71 

2 
27 

1 
30 

3 

57 

196.60 

186.56 

383.16 

Total  of  cases. 

- 

- 

- 

Total  of  persons. 

49 

22 

71 

27 

30 

57 

- 

- 

- 

3.  Received  on  First  and  Subsequent  Admissions. 


NUMBER  OF  THE  ADMISSION. 

Cases  Admitted. 

Times  Previously  Re- 
covered. 

Males.    Females. 

Total. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

First, 

Second,          .... 
Etc.,       .        .        .        . 

49 

22 

71 

- 

- 

Total  of  cases, 
Total  of  persons,    . 

49 
49 

22 
22 

71 

71 

- 

- 

— 

80 


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4.     Ages  of  Persons  admitted  for  the  First  Time. 


At  First  Attack  of 
Insanity. 

When  Admitted. 

AGES. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Fifteen  years  and  less, 

1 

1 

1 

_ 

1 

From  15  to  20  years,  . 

4 

1 

5 

8 

1 

9 

20  to  25  years,  . 

5 

- 

5 

8 

1 

9 

25  to  30  years,  . 

8 

3 

11 

6 

5 

11 

30  to  35  years,  . 

5 

6 

11 

7 

3 

10 

35  to  40  years,  . 

7 

1 

8 

- 

2 

2 

40  to  50  years,  . 

9 

3 

12 

9 

2 

11 

50  to  60  years,  . 

6 

4 

10 

6 

4 

10 

60  to  70  years,  . 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

70  to  80  years,  . 

- 

1 

1 

- 

1 

1 

Over  80  years,    . 

- 

1 

1 

- 

1 

1 

Unknown,  . 

4 

2 

6 

4 

2 

6 

To  als, 

49 

22 

71 

49 

22 

71 

5.     Parentage  of  Persons  admitted. 


Males. 

Females. 

Totals. 

PLACES. 

Father. 

Mother. 

Father. 

Mother. 

Father. 

Jlother. 

Massachusetts,    . 

12 

12 

8 

8 

20 

20 

New  Hampshire, 

_ 

_ 

— 

_ 

Vermont,     . 

2 

2 

1 

1 

3 

3 

New  York, 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2 

2 

Enghind,     . 

3 

3 

- 

- 

3 

3 

Ireland, 

19 

19 

8 

8 

27 

27 

Germany,    . 

5 

5 

1 

1 

6 

6 

Unknown,  . 

7 

7 

3 

3 

10 

10 

Totals, 

49 

49 

22 

22 

71 

71 

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6.     Residence  of  Persons  admitted. 


PLACES. 

Males. 

Feirales. 

Total. 

Massachusetts,  viz. : — 

Suffolk  County, 

Bristol  County.        ..... 

Hampden  County, 

Essex  County,         ..... 
Unknown,       ....... 

11 
1 

2 
35 

16 

4 
2 

27 
1 
2 
4 

37 

Total,     . 

49 

22 

71 

Cities  or  large  towns, 

49 

22 

71 

7.     Civil  Condition  of  Persons  admitted. 


NUMBER  OF 
THE 

Unmarried. 

Married. 

Widowed. 

Unknown. 

ADMISSION. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

First,  . 
Second, 

7 

11 

18 

G 

4 

10 

- 

5 

5 

36 

2 

38 

Total, 

7 

11 

18 

6 

4 

10 

- 

5 

.  5 

36 

2 

38 

8.     Occupation  of  Persons  admitted. 


OCCUPATIONS. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Laborers, 

Domestics, 

Seamstress,    ...         .... 

No  occupation, 

Wives,    ........ 

Widows, 

5 

44 

1 

1 
11 

4 
5 

5 
1 
1 

4 
5 

Total  , 

49 

22 

71 

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.9.     Form  of  Disease  in  the   Cases  admitted. 


FORM  OF  DISEASE. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Mania,  chronic,      .        .        .        .         ... 

Epilepsy, 

Dementia,  chronic, 

25 

8 

16 

7 

4 

11 

32 

12 

27 

Total  of  cases, 

Total  of  persons, 

49 
49 

22 
22 

71 
71 

10.     Reported  Duration  of  Insanity  before  last  admission. 


PREVIOUS  DURATION. 

FirstAdmission  to 
THIS  Hospital. 

All  other 
Admissions. 

Total. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

Ma. 

Fern. 

Tot. 

Congenital, 
Under  1  month. 
From  1  to    3  months, 
3  to    6  months, 
6  to  12  months, 

1  to    2  years,     . 

2  to    5  years,     . 
5  to  10  years,     . 

10  to  20  years,     . 
Over  20  years,     . 
Unknown,   .... 

3 
3 
8 
4 

36 
49 
49 
6.08 

4 
6 

4 
3 

1 
4 

7 
9 
7 
7 
1 
40 

- 

- 

- 

Total  of  cases. 
Total  of  persons, 
Average  of  known  cases,  . 

22 
22 
6.91 

71 

71 

.      1 

1 

- 

_ 

- 

_- 

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11.     Probable  Causes  of  Insanity  in  Persons  admitted. 


CAUSES. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Intemperance, 

Epilepsy, 

Unknown,      ....... 

8 

3 

38 

2 

6 

14 

10 

9 

52 

Totals, 

49 

22 

71 

12.     Relation  to  Hospitals  of  Persons  admitted. 


HOSPITAL  EELATIONS. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

First  admission  to  any  liospital  for  insane,  . 

Former  inmates  of  the  hospital,   . 

of  Dan  vers  Lunatic  Hospital, 
of  McLean  Insane  Asylum,    . 
of  Tewksbury  Almshouse, 
of  Northampton  Lunatic  Hospital, 

Totals, 

10 
1 

37 
1 

49 

20 

2 

22 

30 

1 

39 

1 

71 

13.     How  supported. 


Patients  Admitted. 

AVEKAGE   OF   THE 

Year. 

SUPPORTED  AS 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

State  patients. 
Town  patients,    . 

43 
6 

2 
20 

45 

26 

62.26 
119.53 

45.76 
148.04 

108.02 
267.57 

Totals, 

49 

22 

71 

181.79 

193.80 

375.59 

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ADMISSION. 

Improved. 

Unimpkoved. 

Died. 

Total. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

Ma. 

Fe. 

Tot. 

First,  . 

1 
1 

- 

1 
1 

5 

5 

19      24 

21 

21 

11 
11 

32 
32 

27 

30 

57 

Totals,     . 

19 

24 

27 

30 

57 

Persons,  . 

1 

- 

1 

5 

19 

24 

21 

11 

32 

27 

30 

57 

15.     Cases  resulting  in  Death.  —  Duration.^ 


Congenital, 
Under  1  month, 
From  1  to  3  months, 
3  to    6  months, 
6  to  12  months, 

1  to    2  years,     . 

2  to    5  years,     . 
5  to  10  years,     . 

10  to  20  years,     . 
Over  20  years,  . 
Unknown, 

Total, 
Average  of  known  cases 
(in  months), 


Duration  before 
Admission. 


Ma.      Fe.      Tot 


21 

99 


11 
59 


Hospital 
Residence. 


Ma.      Fe.      Tot 


32 
79 


21 

33 


1 

2 
4 
7 

15 
3 


11      32 
37      35 


Whole  Duration 
from  the  Attack. 


21 
99 


2 

8 

10 

7 


11 

74 


32 
86 


^  Of  the  attack  resulting  in  death. 


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16.     Cases  discharged  by  Recovery  or  Death. 


Eecoveeies. 

Deaths. 

FORM  OF  INSANITY. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Mania,  chronic, 

Epilepsy,        .... 

Dementia,  chronic. 

- 

~* 

~ 

10 

7 
4 

6 
-  3 

2 

16 
10 

6 

Total  of  cases, 
Total  of  persons,    . 

,     - 

- 

- 

21 
21 

11 
11 

32 
32 

17.     Causes  of  Death. 


CAUSES. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Phthisis, 

3 

5 

8 

Epilepsy, 

6 

3 

9 

Apoplexy, 

2 

1 

3 

Old  age,         .         .         .         .        . 

- 

1 

1 

Exhaustion, 

10 

1 

11 

Totals,     ....... 

21 

11 

32 

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18.     Ages  of  those  ivho  Died. 


At  Time  or  the 
Attack. 

First 

At  Time  of  Death. 

AGES. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Fifteen  years  and  less,  . 

3 

3 

From  15  to  20  years. 

1 

2 

3 

3 

_ 

3 

20  to  Ho  years, 

1 

2 

3 

2 

1 

3 

25  to  30  years, 

4 

- 

4 

2 

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2 

30  to  35  years. 

2 

3 

5 

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2 

4 

35  to  40  years, 

3 

9 

5 

2 

1 

3 

40  to  50  years. 

2 

1 

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4 

3 

7  • 

50  to  60  years. 

1 

- 

1 

1 

3 

4 

60  to  70  years. 

- 

1 

1 

2 

- 

2 

70  to  80  years. 

- 

- 

- 

1 

- 

1 

Over  80  years, 

- 

_ 

- 

_ 

1 

1 

Unknown, 

4 

- 

4 

2 

- 

2 

Totals,    . 

21 

11 

32 

21 

11 

32 

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