The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-05
Maine Insane Hospital.

| - We have before us the Reports of the Trus-
tees and Superintendent of the Maine Insane
Hospital for the year ending December 81
| 1865. ri 2a5 - 52ft9nt9a n"f '.-tf s
| From the report of the former we learn that
the health and comfort of the inmates of this
institution compares favorably with any for
mer year Of its history. A new wing has been
erected the past year at cost of $26,AO0, for
which an appropriation of $4,000 was made
by the Legislature, last winter. 1t is estimat-
ed that the cost Of finishing the interior, and
furnishing it viii amount to $25,220, and for
this amount, and the excess of cost Is6,4O0)
of the exterior, over the appropriation of last
year, the Legislature will be called upon to
provide. =. arHf dtf5 rail1. f+s
From the report of DR.. Harlow, the Super
intendent, we gather the following facts: =.
The general health of the household has
been remarkably good; casualties of serious
nature and all epidemics have escaped us. A
merciful Providence has kindly melted out to
US the amenities of life, and we trust some
progress has been made in the treatment of
those requiring hospital aid On the LIST of
December, 1854, we commenced the year with
two hundred and fifty -four patients hun
bred and twenty-eight males, and one hun
dred and twenty-six females. There have
been admitted during the year one hundred
and ty-two-eighty-se males and fifty
seven females, making the whole number um-
der treatment three hundred and ninety-six-
two hundred and fifteen males, and one hun
bred and eighty-one females. There have
and nineteen seventy three males and forty
six females, leaving two hundred and seventy
seven in the hospital at the close of the year
one hundred and forty-three males and one
hundred and thirty-four females.
The following was the condition of those
discharged; recovered, forty -thirty-one
males and sixteen females; improved, twenty
fve-thirteen males, and twelve females; un-
improved, twenty three-eighteep males and
five females; died, twenty -four-eleven males
and thirteen females.
The patients under treatment for the twelve
months past have suffered comparatively little
from acute sickness. The neurology of the
Institution is much less in proportion to the
number treated than for many years previous,
being fraction less than six per cent, and
less than nine per cent. of the daily average
in the house. The causes of death in those
who have died were: consumption, ten; diar
rh9a, three. epilepsy two; apoplery, one;
general paralysis, one; erhdustiue mania, one /;
congestion OF the brain, two; pneumonia, one; ;
gastritis, one; dysenta,y, one; and one by ac-
cidental drowning in attempting to swim the
river. One died in December, one IN January,
one in February, three in March, one in April,
four in May, one in June, one in July, six in
August, three in October, two in November.
The per cent. Of recoyeEies compares favorably
with that Of other years Probably several Of
those discharged Improved would have been
added to the list but for the anxiety of friends
to remove them, and our quasi approval in Or
der to make room for more urgent cases al
most daily applying for admission. The ma
jority of those discharged unimproyea. were
harmless .2S prooaoiy mcurss.aa cad ne "a
F1feu or urged their removal for the sane rea-
son. According to the record of cases, the
civil condition of those admitted the past year
is as follows: thirty-fve men and twenty-three