------+--------+-------------+---------------+----------------- Year.| Total | Total | Total number | Total number of | number | number | of instances | hours under | in the | restrained. | of restraint. | restraint. | house. | | | ------+--------+-------------+---------------+----------------- 1829 | 72 | 39 | 1727 | 20,424 1830 | 92 | 54 | 2364 | 27,113¾ 1831 | 70 | 40 | 1004 | 10,830 1832 | 81 | 55 | 1401 | 15,671½ 1833 | 87 | 44 | 1109 | 12,003½ 1834 | 109 | 45 | 647 | 6,597 1835 | 108 | 28 | 323 | 2,874 1836 | 115 | 12 | 39 | 334 1837 | 130 | 2 | 3 | 28 ------+--------+-------------+---------------+----------------- Here we observe that in 1829 more than half the number of the inmates were subjected to mechanical restraint, while in 1836, out of 115 patients, only twelve were so confined, and in 1837 there were only two out of 130.[178] The total disuse of mechanical restraints followed. They were, however, resorted to on one or two occasions subsequently. In connection with the foregoing, it must be mentioned that the entries of the visitors and the reports of the physicians alike agree in describing the condition of the patients as much improved, the quiet of the house increased, and the number of accidents and suicides as materially reduced in number.