1865 : Forty-sixth annual report of the Cornwall Lunatic Asylum, established at Bodmin, A.D. 1820 presented to the magistrates in quarter sessions, on Tuesday, January 2, 1866 / Cornwall County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Cornwall County Lunatic Asylum.
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[1866]
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Credit: 1865 : Forty-sixth annual report of the Cornwall Lunatic Asylum, established at Bodmin, A.D. 1820 presented to the magistrates in quarter sessions, on Tuesday, January 2, 1866 / Cornwall County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OP THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. Cornwall County Asylum. TO TIIE VISITING COMMITTEE. My Lord and Gentlemen : Males. Females. Total. There remained in the Asylum on j 202 379 31st December, 1864, j Admitted during 1865, . 59 52 111 Total under care, . 236 254 490 Discharged, . 24 26 50 Died, 20 20 40 Remaining under care, ...... 192 208 400 Of whom 18 Males and 15 Females are Private Patients. The total number of cases treated during the year has been 490, 38 more than last year ; and the largest number resident at any one time 404. # , Of the admissions, in 29 cases Insanity was acknowledged to have existed more than twelve months: of these 17 had been insane for more than 2 years, 12 for more than 5 years. In 42 instances some cause was assigned for the attack ; 23 weie attributed to moral, and 19 to physical influences; 2 8 had suffered from previous attacks, and in 15 cases there was known to be hereditary predisposition to Insanity. Twenty Men and 20 Women have died *. of these deaths, 12 are recorded as due to diseases of the Nervous Centres, 9 to Phthisis Pulmonalis, 3 to Pneumonia, 2 to Bronchitis, and 1, a man 69 years of age, nearly 45 of which he had spent in this Asylum, died suddenly from Rupture of the Heart. Fifty Patients have been discharged. During the greater part of the year the Asylum has been full, many of the Wards have been at times overcrowded, not with-