Sussex County Lunatic Asylum : Haywards Heath : annual report : 1902
- Great Britain. Sussex County Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sussex County Lunatic Asylum : Haywards Heath : annual report : 1902. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Bedsores were existent in the high proportion of 9.7 per cent. of the deaths. The causes of the deaths were all natural. General Paralysis responsible for 11.3 per cent., Phthisis for 7-3 per cent., and Senile Decay for 6.5 per cent. One patient died of Colitis. Inquests were held in two instances, neither of them calling for special mention, beyond stating that one of the inquests was_ held -yesterday on a woman who died two days after her admission from apoplexy. Serious, but non-fatal, casualties have occurred to 6 males and 4 females, all of whom sustained injuries, either accidentally or in struggles with fellow patients, The cases of epidemic or zymotic disease since the last visit have been 1 of small-pox in a nurse, 8 of measles, 15 of influenza, and we learn from the register that during the present year 22 patients have been attacked by dysentery (colitis), which proved fata] in one case. At the present time, except for some cases of dysentery on the female side, the general health of the patients is good. There is no record of the use of either mechanical restraint or seclusion since the visit of our colleagues. Of the total patients 12.2 per cent. suffer from epilepsy, 2.9 per cent. from general paralysis. Those considered actively suicidal number 15, or 1.5 per cent. Continuous night supervision is provided for all the suicidal and epileptic patients, only 1.2 per cent. being reported as having wetted beds last night. We gave all the resident patients full opportunity of speech with us, and were satisfied with their personal](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31857772_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
