The tenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1861 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
Date:
1861
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Credit: The tenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1861 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I am thankful in being able to report favourably of the general health of so large a community of Insane persons; for although in the early part of the year, viz., in February, two of the Patients were suffering from Small-pox (from which disease they recovered), we have been most mercifully preserved from this fearful malady increasing, and also from any epidemic of a fatal character attacking the inmates. The bodily health and condition of many of the Patients admitted was not so good as in former years, and the pro¬ bability of cure is much diminished from their having been in other Asylums for several years, and having suffered from previous attacks. Twelve cases of General Paralysis and twenty-five subject to Epileptic seizures were admitted. Of the 253 admissions there have been discharged— Recovered. 24 Relieved . 9 Not Improved. 3 Died. 15 Remaining on the Books . 204 I he number of probably curable cases in this department of the Asylum does not amount to more than sixty-three. The discharges of the past year have been more numerous, in consequence of this department becoming full. In the early part of the autumn it was arranged to remove about one hundred Patients to the sister Asylum at Hanwell. The mortality of the past year has been very small, 78,