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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ... York Retreat. It is from extensive data of this kind, or rather from such tables as shew the numbers of the several ages at the time of admission and re-admission, that it has been ascertained that there are usually a larger number of admissions into asylums from 30 to 40 years of age, than at any other decennial period of life. At the York Retreat, however, by much the greater number has been admitted between the ages of 20 and 30 years; and this has likewise been the case, in common with other American Asylums, at the asylum for the Society of Friends, near Frankford, Pennsylvania. It has been attempted to determine the liability to insanity at different ages, from tables of this description; but as an uncertain and often considerable period elapses after the attack before the patient is placed under care at all, and as, in many cases, a still longer and more uncertain period elapses before he is sent to the particular institution which furnishes the table under consideration, it is obvious that no reliance can be placed upon such a method of calculating the liability, and that the results which it affords must be far too favourable to the earlier ages. Though the age at admission into hospitals for the insane can never supply the want of information as to the age at the first origin of the disorder, it is still not improbable that, on an average, a somewhat similar period elapses after the attack before admission into different asylums; and, consequently, that a comparison of the proportions of the different ages on admission, may afford some inferences which, in the absence of precise information as to the ages at the time of attack, may not be without their value. In the succeeding table I have therefore collected and compared the proportions admitted...

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