Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester: December, 1841 There have been discharged from the hospital during the year, 167. Of these, 68 were cases of less duration than one year; 62 recovered, 2 improved, 4 died; and 99 were of longer duration than one year; 20 recovered, 34 improved, 37 as harmless and for want of room, 8 died. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.