19/09/2015
In their annual report to the state legislature, the State Homœopathic Asylum for the Insane in Middletown, New York, reported for the year 1888-1889 a mortality rate of 2.11 percent and a recovery rate of 51.79 percent as compared to a mortality and recovery rate of 6.0 and 27.23 percent respectively as the average of the three allopathic mental asylums in New York State for the years 1883-88.
Sources:
**S. H Talcott. The homœopathic asylum : Middletown. Medical Advance 1890; 24 : 47-50.
**H. C. Allen. Editorial. Our insane asylum. Medical Advance 1890; 24 : 376-77.