Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-05
Report of The Western Asylum.

Report of the Western Asylum.
In the annual report of the Superin-
tendent ofthe Western Lunatic Asylum.
at Staunton, the following interesting
facts are given
The number remaining in the asylum
October /, 1891. was DOG males and 313
females total, 600. Admitted during
the year ending September 80, 1892, SO
males, IS females total, 1Gl.
The total number in the asylum dur
in@ the year was $50 males, 3Sl females:
total. 40. OF this number 80 males
and IS females were removed total,
los. Remaining in the asylum Septem-
Der 80. 1892. 339 males. 323 females to-
tai. CO..
The number discharged as recovered
during the year WAS 20 males, % fe-
males total, 81 As, improved, 5
males s females total, Is. As un
improved, l male | female total, >.
Died, IS males 24 females total il.
Number removed, % males; IS females;
total. los.
Number admitted during the year. 03
males IS females total, 16l. Ofthcse
II males and II females were re-admit
ted, leaving the number Of first admiS-
sions 50 males, 80 females total, l39.
The highest number in the asylum
during the year was on August 3lst-
Sos: the lowest on October 81, 1871
6l&.
Daily average. BIG maIcs,322 females;
total, 63S. The average monthly num-
ber was $40
Percentage of recoveries (6G) to adj
missions Q6D. 80 per cent.
Percentage of deaths (42) 10 daily
average (G3S), G.5.
The number OF patients admitted
from 1927 to September 50, 1892, was
.t.529, of whom .293 died and 2,574
were discharged, leaving, rs reported,
now in the asylum G62.
The causes Of death were as follows
ApopleXy, >; marasmus, :: epilepsy, A:
senile gangrenc, ,; senile maniacal eN-
huston. !: disease of heart, ,: phthisiS
pulmoralis, Is: intestinal hemorrhage, /;
pneumonia. ,: cholera morbus. |; h;e
moptysis, [: tox1mia l:typhoid J: fever,
!: nervous exhaustion. !: erysipelas, /;
dysentery. !; suicide, /.
The occupations of those admitted
during the year were as follows:
Males-Bricl.makers, ,; butcher, +;
grocer. L; school boy, / !; teacher.
laborers, %; clerks, ,: farmers, 20;
merchants, ,; tanner, l minister, |;
physician, : tailor, engineer, /; no
occupation, ii; baker. blacksmiths,
,; shoemaker, ; railroad contractor,
j; lawyer, ; wheelwright, / travel
inc agent, l : factory hands, 3; artist,
l miller, stonemason. 1-63.
Females-Houscwives, ,2G; domestics,
4 houseleepers, 49, no occupation
10; teachers, 81 farmers daughters, 3;
laborers wives. ,; saleswoman, |; fac
tory hand, l-GS.
The following are the supposed ex-
citing and predisposing causes Of in
sanity i'll some Of the cases admitted
during the year.
Opium, female; apopleXy, male:
ill-health, 3 males, / females dipso-
mania, ; males: domestic trouble, i fe
males: morphomania, male; religion,
> males, IcludlcS recurrence ie-
males heredity, males, i females;
epilepsy, : males, ) females; blow
on head. males: Ia grippe, ,
males, > females; business trouble, 4
males: exposure to sun. 3 males; men-
ingitis, male; nasal catarrh, = males:
hcredity and whisky, male; dcsertion
by wife, maic: oyer-work and cigar
cite smoking, l male; Illness and over
work. female; measles, ! female;
senility, females: unknown II males,
6 females; burning Of house. female;
criminal assault. female fever . fe-
males; ovcrstudy and religion, . males,
females: poverty. male. female;
chronic dyspepsia, > males fright, >
females; syphilis and whisky, l male I;
hcredity, love, opium. male heredity
and poverty, ! male; loss Of child, fe-
male: overstudy, male; disappointed
love, ! female: over-work, male in
jury to head and whisky, ! male; loss
of sleep and over-work, l female; re-
ligion and loss of property, ] female
paralysis l male: death Of brother, l
female morphine and whisky, l male; ;
bodily intirmity, l male; excessive ner-
voCsness, l male; grief, female.