Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-02

covered, 10, Vi WHolIl ~ were men anu
five women; improved. %, OF whom IS
We're men and 10 women; unimproved,
II, eight men and three women; died.
SO, AS men and Al women, leaving at the
close OF the hospital year, Nov. 90, 1905.
Il total of 713 patients. of whom 404
We're men and 500 women.
The daily average of patients for the
year has been TO; the largest number
in the institution under treatment was
72S. and the least number 101. The
percentage of recoverieS during the
past year, based on the admissions has
been 80 per cent, against 24.o per cent.
The assigned cause of insanity of pa
TENTS admitted during the year WAS as
follows: ApopleXy, :; alcoholism, s.;
congenital, 3: domestic afflction, 10;
dissipation. s; epilepsy, 10; exposure in
army life. l; erysipelas. 1; financial
troubles, 4: family anxiety. /; grief 2;
hercdity, 81; i'll health, 3: injury, .;
Ia grippe 8; heredity and Ia grippe, l /;
ica lousy, | /; menopause, 3; overwork. IL 3;
overstudy, /: puberty, /; puerperal, 5;
religious excitement, 1; surgical oper-
alton, l: sunstroke. 5; senility. IL;
self abuse. >; uterine disease, /: I'M
known, Sc; venereal disease, 4
worry. l.
The ages of those admitted have been
as follows: From 10 to 20 years, II,
OF whom We're men and We're WOm-
-n: from 20 TO 80 years. 40, of whom
20 We're men and 20 women: from
80 to 40 years, Al, of whom 20 We're
men and II women; from 40 to 80
years. 81, of whom 23 We're men and
IL women; from 80 To GO years, 30, of
whom II were men and Is We're WOm-
On. from 60 to 20 years, %. Of whom
| : We're men and 8 women: from 20 to
50 years, Is. of whom 9 We're men and
y We're women; from so to 80 years, ,,
both of whom We're men.
AS to the social condition of those
who were admitted. IS We're married.
43 being men and 81 women: 100 We're
single, of whom 80 we're men and Al
women: of the widowed there We're %,
of whom 10 We're men and Il women {:
: had been divorced. ; being men and
4 women.
The monthly admissions We're as fol-
lows: Dec. 1904 L.: Jan. 1906 9; Feb
ruary Il; March. II; April. II; May,
80; June. Is: July, 10; August. 16;
September. 20; October %; November,
II.
The causes of death during the year
We're as follows: ApopleXy. s; cirr-
hosts of the liver, l; dementia paraly-
tic. |; dementia terminals. IS: demen-
tia senilis. 10: dementia primary, ,;
diabetis, l; epilepsy, /; hydrOpericar:
dunn, l; mania acute. :; mania chrorl-
ic. 4; melanchOlia. II; nephritis acute,
>; ncphritis chronic, >; paresis, IL;
pythisis pulmonalis. 8; paralytic insani-
ty, 4: shock, /; typhoid fever, l; toxic
insanity, /: typho- mania. ,.
BY months the deaths at the inSti-
tuition Were: Dee. 1904. 5 JAN, 1905,
I; February. :; March, 6; April, g.;
May. 10; June, 5; July, 6; August. g.;
September, H. October, 10; November,
I.
Age of death, From 10 to 90 years,
>. both of whom We're men: from 20 to
30 years. :, men and 3 women; from
80 to 40 years. II men and ) women;
from 40 10 so years. 20, II men and
women; from 80 TO 60 years. Is, 10
men and 5 women; from so to 20
years, IA, . men and s women; from
20 to so years, Is, s men and 10 wom-
en-; from so to 80 years, =, Il man and
a woman; from 80 to 100 years. Il WOMB
an.
The occupation of those admitted
was: Blacksmith. 1: book keeper, /;
business. 3: baker. /; box maker, ] !;
bootblack. /; clerk, 1; carpenter, Z: