Annual medical report for the year 1859-60, ending July 4th / Kent Lunatic Asylum, Barming Heath, Maidstone.

  • Kent County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Annual medical report for the year 1859-60, ending July 4th / Kent Lunatic Asylum, Barming Heath, Maidstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The health of the whole establishment has been excellent; but small¬ pox appeared in October, 1859, attacking 3 patients and 1 attendant. The patient in whom the disease first appeared had been admitted three weeks, and had had no discoverable communication with any other infected person since his reception. All recovered. Yaccination was practised on many persons. A male patient was found dead one morning, having been suffocated by turning on his face in a fit in the night. Two instances of suicide happened; one in which the patient cut his throat with a penknife, the other in which he hanged himself with a sheet in his bedroom, two other patients being present in the room. Both were men, and the two accidents happened within* a week of each other. JAMES E. HUXLEY, M.D, Superintendent. July 19 ih, 1860.