The report of the Committee of Visitors and Medical Superintendent of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Devon County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1857?]
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Credit: The report of the Committee of Visitors and Medical Superintendent of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF PATIENTS ADMITTED DUPING THE YEAR 1856. TABLE No. 1. FORM OF DISEASE ON ADMISSION. Mania, recent .. . „ chronic. Melancholia . Dementia .. with paralysis .. *6 4 * • • •• • • Idiocy 66 10 31 24 1 7 Imbecility .. General paralysis Epilepsy .. .. Total .. • • 1 7 8 155 TABLE No. 2. AGE ON ADMISSION. From 10 to 20 years * • • • 10 From 70 to 80 years .. 7 20 „ 30 .. .. Above 80 .. .. 30 „ 40 .. .. Unknown .. .. 6 » 40 „ 50 .. .. 50 „ 60 .. .. » 60 „ 70 .. Total .. 155 TABLE No. 3. ASSIGNED CAUSE OF ILLNESS IN PATIENTS ADMITTED, Blows on head. 1 Convulsions . 1 Cholera . 1 Disease of brain . 1 Debility. 1 Disappointed affections .. .. 2 Disappointment . 1 Epilepsy. 7 Over excitement in business .. 1 Exposure to cold . 1 Fright . 4 Fevers . 6 Falls .. 4 Grief at death of father .. .. 1 „ mother .. .« l „ daughter .. 2 j, son •. • • 1 „ sister .. .. l 5, aunt .. .. l Grief at desertion of husband .. 1 „ illness of daughter .. 1 Grief at temporary loss of ditto 1 „ loss of property .. .. 2 Hereditary.10 Intemperance. 8 Ill-will against fellow servant.. 1 Lightning stroke . 1 Melancholy . 1 Mental anxiety. i Old age .. .. .. 1 Pregnancy. 1 Puerperal fever. 1 Reduced circumstances .. .. 4 Religious fanaticism. II Sickness. .. .. 1 Study . 1 Sight of a hoy who had shot himself 1 Congenital . 2 Unknown or no cause assigned 66 Injury to leg . 1 Total ..155