The fifteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1866 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch

Date:: [1866]

Credit: The fifteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1866 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$suffer until 1 month after her confinement, when she had a succession of fits, from which she rallied. As the mental powers did not appear to be impaired, after having pre¬ viously a month’s trial with her relatives, she was finally discharged. The greater number of the Patients have a probationary period with their relatives or friends prior to their dis¬ charge. Two Patients were obliged to be retained after their being out on trial; the one for having become melancholic and suicidal, the other had become homicidal. They are both in an improved mental condition, but their bodily health is failing. The Patients discharged relieved and not improved were transferred to other Asylums and to their friends. The mortality of the year amounts to 71 deaths, chiefly from Pulmonary Consumption, Bronchitis, Epilepsy, Para¬ lysis, General Paralysis, Maniacal Exhaustion, and Natural | Decay. Ten were upwards of 70 years of age, and one ] was reported to be in her 92nd year. It was considered - necessary fo have Inquests upon two of the Patients who died, one in consequence of her having accidentally fallen i down and fractured her right thigh four months prior to l her death. The other was found dead in her bed. The following verdicts were returned by the Jurors, “That the said Sarah Parsons was found dying, and did die, from ' the effects of natural decay, with paralysis, and the said \ Jurors further say that the said death of the said deceased ! was the result of natural causes;” and “That the said ii Mary Ann Smith was found dead, and did die from the i mortal effects of suffocation, during an attack of epilepsy,$