Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

Date:
1847
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Credit: Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    1847. Jan. 27.—On visiting* the same Asylum, it appeared that there had been eight I atients le- cently admitted, of whom^w were admitted in bad health. 1840. Oct. 30.—On visiting* the White House, Bethnal Green, it appeared that, since the last, visit, fifteen Patients had died, of whom eight veie ad- mitted in bad or feeble health. 1847. Jan. 7.—On visiting* the same Asylum, it appeared that nine Patients had recently died, of whom three were upwards of seventy years of age, and the Test were very old and feeble cases. 1840. Oct. 30.—On visiting* Hoxton House, it appeared that of the fifty-three Patients recently admitted, at least twenty-one were admitted in low and feeble health • and of the eighteen Patients Avho had died since the last visit (on the 2nd July), six were admitted since the 23rd of April last. Of the Patients in lied, two when admitted were para- lyzed and had body sores, and another had a very bad leg*. There were, at this time, in the Infirmary of this Asylum, a considerable number of paralytic cases in the last stage of disease. 1847. Feb. 10.—On visiting* the same Asylum, it appeared that since the last visit in October, fifty-six Patients had been admitted, of whom thirty were admitted in bad or feeble bodily health ; and also, that there had been forty deaths, of which sixteen occurred from paralysis, eight from epi- (White House ;) at Hoxton House.