Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-01-10
MAINE INSANE HosPTrAI.
ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE.

AASShAR06s
At the beginning of the year. Dec 1, 1882
there were in the hospital 46l patients, 25z
men, and 209 women; 208 have been admit
ted since-l30 men and 70 women. making
whole number under treatment 669. 3s2 men
and 287 women. OF these there have been
discharged POS; l3G men and So women,
leaving in the hospital ct the close of the
year, 464; 246 men, 2l8 women. Five men
and four women were admitted in December.
CS2, ten men and six women in January |;
nve men and seven women in February ;
eleven men and five women in March; eleven
men and four women in April; twelve men
and six women in May; seventeen men and
ten women in June; eleven men and four
women IN July; fifteen men and six women
In August; eleven men and ten women in
September; thirteen men and ten women in
October; five men and SIX women in Novem-
Der.
One hundred and fifty Of those admit
ted during the year were on their first admis-
sion, twenty -four on their second, nineteen
on their third, seventeen on their fourth, one
on the fifth, one on the sixth and one on the
ninth. Three have been admitted twice in
the year. Recovered, 53-3l men and %
women; improved, 32-24 men and wom-
en-; unimproved, 22-l7 men and women;
died, S8-64 men and "a women. Of the SO
discharged recovered, 34-21 men and Is
women were on their first admission; I3-6
men and women, on their second; 2-one
man and one woman, on their third; 2-one
man and one woman, on their fourth,
and one man ON the eleventh.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Diarrhea, men; paralysis, 7-3 men and
women; general paralysis, 3-2 men and l
woman; erysipelas, l man; apoplexy, 4-3
men and woman; chronic insanity, Sc men
and women; exhaustive mania, 1916 men
and women paralysis of the heart, 2 men;
consumption, A men and women; con-
gestion of the brain, 2 men; senile dementia,
man; epilepsy, rs men and 2 wsmen;
diarrhea and dropsy, man; dropsy, 16-l5
men and l woman; old age, man; gastritis,
2 women; Inflammation of the bowels. l
woman; exhaustive and acute denentia, g.
men and woman; chronic melancholia, 4
3 men and woman; valvular disease of
the heart, l man; diabetes, man; typho-
mania, l man; cardiac disease. men
phlegmonous erysipelas. man latent phthis-
ic, woman; exhaustion from insanity,
man.
The assigned causes of insanity in those
admitted during the year are as follows: ill
health, 38-l4 men and "a women; intern
peranee, l4-13 men, l woman; critical Pc
riod of life, women; epilepsy, l2-11 men,
l woman; domestic affection, 1915 men,
women; masturbation. 8 men; over-exertion.
III men, women; injury Of head, 7-6
men, l woman; puerperal, women; sun
stroke, men; old age, 8-5 men, 8 women
disappointed affections, women; religious
excitement, 2-1 man, woman; spiritualism,
woman embarrassment in business, man
paralysis, men; injury OF spine, man
effects Of electricity, man: suppressed ir-
ruption. man; secondary syphilis, l man
severe sickness, woman law suit, l man
dissolute lite, woman pregnancy, woman
unknown, 57-47 men and 10 women.
SOCIAL CONDITION.
100 were married-57 men. 43 women; 81
unmarried-54 men, 81 women; ii widowers;
widows, and that of 8 men unknown. The
Hospital has been in operation 43 years, dur
ing which time 6, l61 patients have been ad-
mitted; 5.697 have been discharged; of the
latter, 1926 recovered, l,l31 improved, 999
did not improve. and 1,242 died The daily
average number of patients for the year, $50;
AZ have been supported by their own means,
or relatives, 50 entirely by the State, and 1868
have received State aid of sl.5O per week,
towns or individuals paying the balance.