Fifty-second annual report of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1904, and financial statements, 1904-5.

  • County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Fifty-second annual report of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1904, and financial statements, 1904-5. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Summary of Causes of Death. Males. Females. Total. Diseases of Brain and Spinal Cord 17 9 26 ,, Heart and Lungs ... 16 20 36 ,, Abdominal Organs. 11 16 27 Senile Degeneration 5 3 8 Other Causes . 4 0 4 53 48 101 Post Mortem examinations were made in 93 out of the 101 deaths, or 92-07 per cent. Private Patients.—Seven, including four criminals, were admitted, four discharged, and one was transferred from pauper to private class. The private patients have thus increased four during the year. Owing to the overcrowding of the Asylum private patients have had, in nearly all cases, to be refused. As criminal cases are classed in the private class, I may here raise the strongest objection to the County Asylum being used for the reception of these cases. Their influence is bad in every way, and the more sensible among the patients strongly object to be associated with them. Inquests.—Two inquests were held. In one case the patient had a fractured thigh. In each case the jury brought in a verdict in accordance with the , medical evidence, and exonerated the Staff from any blame. Accidents.—None were fatal. They were as follows :— One of fractured skull, three of fractured ribs—one done by coughing,—one dislocation of the shoulder, two of fractured hip, one of the ulna, one of a finger, one of the acromion. All these were accidental or caused by the violence of fellow patients. One man sustained a fracture of his fibula in a struggle with an Attendant, whom he had viciously attacked. One female patient came by a fractured sternum through the slipping of a ladder on which a nurse was standing; nurse and ladder falling on the patient. Escapes.—-Three patients managed to escape. They were all recaptured in a few hours. Births.—Two married women who were admitted in a pregnant condition were confined. One has left the Asylum recovered.