46                                                                                                                                    REPORT ON THE

                                                                                                                                                No. 15.

                                                        Statement showing the Particulars of Solitary Confinement and Mechanical Restraint in the Dullunda Asylum during the year 1872.

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Average daily strengh.

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.

MECHANICAL RESTRAINT.

Number of persons confined
during the year.

Number of occasions on which
solitary confinement was
employed.

DURATION OF CONFINEMENT IN
HOUES.

CAUSES
FOR WHICH
EMPLOYED.

Number of persons restrained
during the year.

Number of occasions on which
restraint was employed.

DURATION OF RESTRAINT IN
HOURS.

METHODS.

CAUSES FOR WHICH EMPLOYED.

Maximum.

Minimum.

Mean.

Excitement, and
being violent and
noisy.

Maximum.

Minimum.

Mean.

Ligatures.

Woollen Bags.

Excitement.

Surgical disease.

Eating mud when
left free.

354.86

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78

436

5

200

78

70

142

1,938

5

900

67

75

84

57

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