Medical report of the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen, for the year ending 31st December, 1866.

  • Royal Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Date:
1867
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Credit: Medical report of the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen, for the year ending 31st December, 1866. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL EEPOET. The number of patients in tbe Aberdeen Asylum on 1st January, 1866, was three hundred and sixty-two. The admissions during the subsequent twelve months were one hundred and forty-eight. The removals were ninety-three, and the deaths thirty-one. The gross number of Pafients for the year was five hundred and ten, and the mean number resident three hundred* and sixty-nine. •s. At the end of the year the number in the house was three hundred and eighty-six, or one hundred and seventy-six males and two hundred and ten females. Of this total, two hundred and sixty-three were Parochial Cases, and one hundred and twenty-three, or one-third of the whole, were classed as Private patients, and of these, thirty-two were boarded at Elmhill House. The admissions were this year considerably above what they had yet been. There was an increase of thirty-seven over the number for the preceding year, owing, in a great measure, to a larger admission of