The twenty-third annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1880 : with appendices.

  • Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
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[1881]
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Credit: The twenty-third annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1880 : with appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attendants from any blame as to the occurrence. The patient was a very dangerous epileptic, liable to fits of excitement, during which he became very violent, and had been specially watched for some years all day. Besides the mischief he had done to doors, windows, and furniture on various occa¬ sions, he had assaulted several of the other patients from time to time* One patient lost an eye from his violence, and another had the lobe of his ear bitten off by him. On the last occasion he was struggling with four attendants, who do not appear to have used unnecessary force or intentional violence towards the patient in removing him to his own room. The second inquest was held to comply with the law rather than to pursue any investigation. A female patient, aged 50, was pushed off a seat in a day-room by another patient, 80 years of age, and broke her leg in the fall. In consequence of her death about three weeks afterwards, the Coroner felt bound to hold an inquest, when a verdict was returned to the effect that the deceased met with her death “ casually, accidentally, and not otherwise.*’ A post-mortem examination showed that the patient was in a very diseased condition. She had fatty disease of the heart, double pneumonia, 4