The twenty-second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The twenty-second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The bodily condition of those received, was found in many, on admission, to be very unfavourable, one-third of the whole were thin, pale, and feeble; several of these had also sores on the sacrum, others on the legs, some were affected with boils and cutaneous eruptions, some V were suffering from various diseases of the heart or lungs, others were in so feeble a state that they were at once carried to bed and died in a short time, even those regis¬ tered as well nourished, were, in not a few instances, labouring under serious ailments. Of the thirty-four Patients who left the Asylum recovered, ten had been under treatment for periods varying from six weeks to four months, thirteen between four and eight months, nine between eight and eighteen months, one nearly two years, and one two and a half; those discharged improved and not improved were removed by adjudication to the Asylums of other districts, or given into the care of their friends, except two, who escaped from a party on an Excursion to Hampton Court, during the summer, and not having returned, were struck off the list at the expiration of fourteen days. Information has since been received of their residing with their relatives. Thirty-eight of the deaths were caused by general paralysis, apoplexy and epilepsy; nine by exhaustion from mania or melancholia, and thirteen by pulmonary affections; eleven were due to general debility, one to jaundice, two to cancer, one to disease of heart and kidneys, one to ulcerated bowels, one to dropsy resulting from diseased liver, one to asphyxia, and one to suicide. The death by asphyxia was of an epileptic, aged forty- six, and who had been upwards of twenty-seven years