TABLE 2. Showing the Admissions and State of the Hospital, from December 1st, 1849, to November 30th, 1850. Patients in the Hospital, Decem ber 1st, 1849, so go - 4 Poor, - e- so & - 16 Males, - go 220 Males, – a # 4 Females, * - 209 Females, to 12 Patients admitted in course of Private boarders on bonds, - 31 the year, too so gos - 241 Males, – &=o Males, - too 129 Females, go 19 Females, o 112 Whole number in the Hospital in course of the year, goe - 670 || Foreigners—those who have no Males, - - 349 legal residence in this State— Females, so 321 admitted during the year, – 95 - Males, - go 48 Patients remaining in the Hospi- Females, go 47 tal, November 30th, 1850, - 441 Males, - - 228 Foreigners discharged during the Females, &o 213 year, - - - # to - 58 Males, – to o 31 Females, so 27 Of the admissions, there were Foreigners remaining in the Hoscases of less duration than one pital at the end of the year, - 169 year, - so too to - 155 Males, - go 80 Males, - *o- 83 Females, go 89 Females, so 72 Of one year and more, - - 81 * Males, - - 41 State paupers remaining in the Females, so 40 Hospital at the end of each year, as near as they can be Cases the duration of whose in- ascertained:— sanity before admission not as- NOcertained, - so no o - 5 1842, - g- * = 4-9 34 Males, – so 5 1843, - * go so 38 Females, o 0 1844, - to so wo 38 1845, - - g so 57 1846, - - so * 52 1847, - - - - 121 Patients committed by Courts, - 194 1848, - - - - 150 Males, - so 115 1849, - so go - 167 Females, * = 79 1850, - - to - 181. Committed by Overseers of the TABLE 3. Showing the number of Discharges and Deaths, and the condition of those who left the Hospital, from December 1st, 1849, to November 30th, 1850. As the Hospital has been so much crowded for some years past, the discharges must correspond very nearly with the admissions. Two hundred and twenty-nine have been discharged, of whom one hundred and twenty-five have recovered and returned to their families and former pursuits. Fifteen have left with some amendment of their condition, but not fully restored. The courts have discharged some whose condition had not essentially changed by their residence here. When patients have, in my opinion, become rational and able to control their actions, I have recommended them to the favorable consideration of two or more members of your Board for permission to let them leave the Hospital. Sometimes the friends have urged their leaving the Hospital before we had become fully satisfied that it was for the best good of the patient to do so. In some instances of this kind where the cause of their commitment, the violence of their malady, had ceased, I have complied with the wishes of friends and recommended the discharge of the patient. It is not uncommon for persons who, as we supposed, left the Hospital nearly or quite recovered, to feel and afterwards say, that they left too soon. On the trial they found they had not regained sufficient strength of mind and body to meet and endure the vicissitudes of a business life. But we are happy to know that most of those, who left the Hospital as recovered, continue in the enjoyment of their reason. |