ANNUAL REPORT ON LUNATIC ASYLUMS.                    25

Of the 31 admissions during the year no less than 64.5l  per cent. were cases
of acute mania. The next most common type amongst admissions was chronic
mania. Taking the whole Asylum population during the year, the most common
form of insanity was acute mania, and next to that chronic mania and chronic
dementia. Further particulars under this head are given in Table VI of Appendix.

3. Discharges.—Twelve cases were discharged having recovered—1 criminal
and 11 civil males.

The percentage of cured to total admissions is 38.71, and to daily average
strength is 31.57.

One criminal lunatic has been transferred from the criminal to the civil list as
his term of imprisonment expired on the 31st December last.

The following table shows the names, ages, diseases, health on admission,
weight and residence in the Asylum of the discharged cured:—

4. Deaths.—The death-rate is unusually high, being 39.47 to daily average
strength, but this is to be accounted for from the fact that only hopeless and incur-
able cases are retained in this Asylum, and many of them are feeble and subjects
of organic disease and impaired constitution, the result of destitution and starvation
previous to admission. It will be seen that a large proportion of the fatal cases
were admitted in very bad or indifferent health.

Of the 15 deaths that occurred during the year, 2 were criminal males—1 from
atrophy and the other from general debility.

One military from epilepsy, and the remaining 12 belonged to the civil, of
which 10 were males and 2 females, and the diseases from which the mortality
occurred are as follow: —Of the males 1 from acute Bright's disease, 1 from
atrophy, 2 from general debility, 1 from general dropsy, 1 from diarrhœa, 1 from
dysentery, 1 from locomotor atoxy, 1 from gangrene of the lungs, and 1 from
ascites; and of the females 1 from pneumonia and 1 from stinging insect.

Of the 15 fatal cases, the health on admission was good in 3, fair in 3, indif-
ferent in 3, bad in 2, and very bad in 4.

The subjoined table shows the ages, health on admission, disease causing
death, and period of residence in the Asylum of the fatal cases :—

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