The sixteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
Date:
[1867]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The sixteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    24/112 (page 24)
    APPENDIX No. 2. COPT OF ENTRY MADE BY THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. Colney Hatch Asylum, 17th November, 1866. During the last four days we have been engaged in the inspection of this Asylum. Every Patient has been personally examined, and all the wards and offices have been visited. Since our colleagues’ visit on the 12th of August, 1865, 249 Male and 177 Female Patients have been admitted; 103 Males and 90 Females have been discharged; and 135 Males and 85 Females have died. Of the Patients discharged, about 75 of each sex were reported to be recovered. The deaths were attributed to the following causes, viz.:— General Paralysis .. 76 Apoplexy and other forms of Paralysis ., 15 Epilepsy 20 Pulmonary Consumption .. 35 Maniacal Exhaustion , * 17 Exhaustion of Dementia 16 Senile Decay 16 Disease of the Head or Lungs 11 Suffocation during Epilepsy 2 Ditto from Food in Glottis (Choking) 2 Suicide by Hanging 1 Other causes 9 220