The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-23
OUR LUNATICS.

The Years Statistics or tho Wards
Island Insane Asylum.
DR.. J. Fl. Kellogg, resident physician OF Wards
Island, yesterday submitted his second annua
report Of the New York CITY Asylum for the Insane
to the Commissioners OF Charities and Correction.
The report shows that the LIST OF January, 1873,
there were 400 males In the asylum, and that 392
were admitted during the year. The number dis
charged during the year was 1893, OF which 1I6 had
recovered, 40 were improved, 80 were unimproved
and were improper subjects. One hundred and
four died during the year, ana the number now In
the asylum is $50. The deaths averaged per
month, and the highest number Of deaths in any
one month was IL. In March and November re-
spectvely. or those admitted were under Is years
age II from Is to 20 years old, 239 from 20 to 40
years of age, 1923 from SO to 10 years old from 20
10 80 years OF age there are 2, and there was one
over go wears old. The nativity Of those admitted
shows that 1856 were born in Ireland, "a in Ger
many, 100 in the United States, Is in England, in
France, IN Scotland, each in Sweden, Cuba and
Nova Scotia, in New Brunswick, in Bermuda
and South America, and l nationality I'M
known OF the occupation of those admitted,
there were 90 laborers, "a clerks, 10 carpenters,
Is painters II sailors, law student physicians,
l clergyman, school teacher, and the rest were
divided up In as many different trades. The civil
condition OF those admitted shows 2N married,
16 widowed and 145 single; I'll we're educated In the
common schools, had University educatlons; 86
could read and write, "a could only read and 46 were
totally ignorant The type insanity shows 100 to be
suffering from acute mania, n from chronic
rom mania a potu. IA from epie ptic INSANITY and
the rest from various other diseases Ten became
insane from injury done to the brain, 26 from cpl
lepsy, ~ from intemperance, 81 from pecuniary
troubles, from coup de sOliel, 81 from hereditary
predisposition. 10 from restitution, from domes-
from masturbation, rom religious enthusiasm,
from disappointed anecti0n from overwork,
from old age S1 1as , each from aPopexy yenery
insane Tor less than one year, rs from TWO to
three years. % from three to five years, 80 over
40 were under thirty years Of age 81 from thirty TO
nifty years, from fifty to seventy years old
nS we're q 10 sS
no religion and 81 OF unknown faith. The
form OF insanity OF those admitted during the year
and who were discharged recovered shows that 81
and melancholfa, respectively; 10 recurrent mania,
lively; partial mania aud each epieptic mania
and mania pOtu. or these so were under treat
ment less than ! month, os from to y months e,I
that died show that IL had phth!ss pulmonis, IL
chronic diarrheea, 10 general paresis, ! eacn OF
senectus and exhaustion from paralytic de,
mentia, 8 each dysentery, inanision and
rom epilepsy '0g emeritus
pleuro-pneumona, respectively, and ! eacn
sangIene OF Sng
taorax. strangulation from food, aud one com
mitted suicide by suspension. or those that died,
twenty to thirty years Of age, SO from thirty to
forty rs from forty to &c. 10 IRON city TO sixty, Is
and from eighty to ninety years OF age; Is had
been insane under one month, 81 from one to
twelve months, rs from one to two years. from
two to three years, three from three to Ave years.
and 8 from to 10 years. OF those admitted during
the year 243 were OF temperate habits, III intern
perate, were moderate drinkers ana the habits
~ 80 we're unknown.