Thirty-sixth annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics, submitted, in terms of their charter, to general meeting of contributors, 10th January, 1850.

  • Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Thirty-sixth annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics, submitted, in terms of their charter, to general meeting of contributors, 10th January, 1850. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHYSICIAN'S REPORT For 1849. In my first Annual Medical Report, all the details to the 11th of July belong, of course, to the medical super¬ intendence of Dr. Hutcheson, and Dr. Thomson, who suc¬ ceeded him pro tempore. It must thus necessarily em¬ brace the severe attack of Cholera which the Institution sustained, at the close of the year 1848 and beginning of 1849. I shall therefore proceed to state, as shortly as possible, what occurred in reference to that fatal epidemic, under the official management of those gentlemen. Dr. Hutcheson, in allusion to the appearance of the epidemic in Glasgow, early in November, observes that measures were taken to ward it off, or to be prepared for its re¬ ception, if it unfortunately should make its appearance; these were completed on the 30th November; the wards were cleaned, additional blankets and bed-clothes pro¬ cured, the diet of the pauper Patients was made more generous and nutritive, and their clothing, and other cir¬ cumstances, particularly attended to; but all precautions were unavailing, for Cholera appeared in the Female Division of the East House, on the evening of Thursday the 28th December, and its ravages were equally rapid and destructive. The results, as detailed in the Reports of Dr. Thomson, were as follows:— “ The Cholera, as was mentioned in the last Annual Report, broke out in the Female Division of the East House, on the evening of the 28th December, and cases continued to occur till the 22d of January, when it ceased