The 109tli Annual Report of the New York State Hospital and Bloomingdale Asylum
The old-established hospital and asylum of the State of New York continues to exercise a large and beneficent influence over the lunatic population of the State. Its connection with insanity is not entire, the hospital affording an asylum to those afflicted by injury or accident also. The Bloomingdale Asylum does not receive cases of simple opium habit or of delirium tremens. During the year 1879 twenty-nine recoveries took place in the institution, and five deaths occurred, the total number of patients under treatment in the twelve months being 265. Of the cases reported as recovered, the form of disease in fifteen was ordinary mania, hysterical mania in three, puerperal mania in two women, and melancholia in nine. The duration of treatment in recovered cases varied from nineteen days to three years six months and seventeen days, the average being about six and a half months. The report speaks favourably of the progress and condition of the inmates of the Asylum for the year, and is in all respects an admirable account of the asylum of which it treats.
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