The reports of the County Lunatic Asylums at Lancaster, Prestwich, & Rainhill : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 4th of January 1854 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the respective treasurers of the said asylums.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1854
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Credit: The reports of the County Lunatic Asylums at Lancaster, Prestwich, & Rainhill : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 4th of January 1854 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the respective treasurers of the said asylums. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    93 TABLE XIV, CAUSES OF DEATH, In patients wko have died during the year 1853. Disease of the Brain . >> ending in Apoplexy .... a with General Paralysis ...... Pulmonary Consumption Natural Decay ... Epilepsy . . Disease of the Heart. Disease of the Kidneys . >5 with Epilepsy . Exhaustion, from refusal to take food. . a after Acute Mania .. a after Mania, (the Kidneys being diseased) a after a suppurating wound of the Scalp .. Carbuncle on the Scalp followed by Pneumonia .... Bronchitis . . Fever .... .].].*** Disease of the Spine . .. General Dropsy . Shock to the system from a severe scald . T otal. M. F. TOT. 1 0 1 2 1 3 12 5 17 5 7 12 2 4 6 3 2 5 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 ] 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 J 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 31 28 59 TABLE XV. ADMISSIONS AND DISCHARGES, From January 1851, to January 1854, M. F. TOTAL. Patients admitted during the Three Years 381 405 786 M F. TOTAL, Discharged Recovered 72 99 171 ,, Improved.... . 19 5 24 ,, Unimproved . 14 7 21 Escaped . .... .... 7 2 9 Died... ... ........ 88 75 163 — -- 200 188 388 Remaining in the Asylum January 1st 1854 • • • • • • • •
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