Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, together with the reports of the medical superintendent & chaplain / Bristol Lunatic Asylum.

  • Bristol Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, together with the reports of the medical superintendent & chaplain / Bristol Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 9 highest resident numbers, and of 25 in the number remaining in the Asylum at the end of the year. The.numerical results of the year 1370 yield the following Per centage per centages. for 1S^0- The per centage of recoyeries on admissions has been about 42 Per centage of per cent. Recoveries. The per centage of deaths stands at 8-2 on the total number Death Rato, under treatment. Of the admissions, 14 males and 26 females were considered to be curable ; 28 males and 26 females incurable. Curability of Patients on Admission. Fifteen males and 25 females have been discharged recovered. Discharges and Removals, 1 male and 2 females have been removed either at the request of their friends or under orders. Among the recoveries was that of a patient who, when admitted Case of suffered from melancholia with suicidal tendency ; she gave birth to Acc0^Prncnt a child four months after her admission into the Asylum, at the time ^^jjernia^6^ disowned all knowledge of her infant, stating it did not belong to her.' Another female patient, aged 65 years, was found upon admission to have a strangulated femoral hernia, requiring operation. Nineteen males and 7 females have died ; the following were the chief causes of death:—Protracted cerebral disease, associated with epilepsy or paralysis, pulmonary disease and senile decay, while three cases died from maniacal exhaustion. Among the deaths was that of one of the celebrities of the Case of J. J. Asylum, known to the visitors as “ the Man with the Wheelhe had been an inmate from the first opening of the establishment in 1861, having been transferred from the Asylum in St. Peter’s Hospital. Ilis delusive ideas related principally to his having a wheel perpetually working within his body, the revolution of the wheel giving him no rest night or day, so that he had not slept for many years: before his death, he said, to-morrow at ten o’clock the wheel will stop, and I shall be in Heaven ; as the Asylum clock was striking ten the following morning his spirit took its flight. Deaths and causes of Death. B