Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra

Appendix 1: Mortality and Full Recoveries (as Percentages of Patients Treated) by Race, South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1891–1914

265 A p p e n d i x 1 Mortality and Full Recoveries (as Percentages of Patients Treated) by Race, South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1891–1914* Year Mortality (%) Full Recoveries (%) Whites Blacks Overall Whites Blacks Overall 1891 13% 24% 18% 12% 9% 11% 1892 12 22 17 9 9 9 1893 15 29 17 9 9 9 1894 10 20 15 7 10 8 1895 11 21 16 10 10 10 1896 14 27 20 8 8 8 1897 9 20 13 8 8 8 1898 13 26 18 9 8 8 1899 13 21 16 9 9 9 1900 12 26 18 9 8 8 1901 12 20 15 6 7 6 1902 12 23 17 8 7 8 1903 14 22 17 8 7 8 1904 13 15 14 5 8 6 1905 11 21 16 5 3 4 1906 10 25 17 7 6 6 1907 11 22 16 5 3 4 1908 9 24 16 8 6 7 1909 9 21 14 7 4 5 1910 9 24 16 8 6 7 1911 11 24 17 9 5 7 Mortality and Full Recoveries (as Percentages of Patients Treated) by Race, South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1891–1914* (continues) 266 Asylum Doctor Year Mortality (%) Full Recoveries (%) Whites Blacks Overall Whites Blacks Overall 1912 14 31 22 6 4 5 1913 13 22 17 7 6 6 1914 20 31 25 4 4 4 Summaries for Babcock’s Era as Superintendent (complete years, 1892–1913) 1892−1898 12% 22% 17% 9% 9% 9% 1899−1906 12 22 16 7 8 6 1907−1913 11 24 17 7 7 7 All Years 12% 23% 17% 7% 7% 7% Summaries for Years Before and After Babcock’s Era as Superintendent 1886−1889 12% 20% 16% 10% 9% 10% 1915−1922 12% 19% 17% 5% 4% 4% *Spreadsheets with these data, and also the methods for this analysis, are in box 8, folder 34, Babcock papers, SCL.The data are from annual reports; these reports do not provide the numbers of full recoveries for 1915−1917. ...