Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented at the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, holden at Preston, 31st December, 1881, with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.
- Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented at the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, holden at Preston, 31st December, 1881, with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TABLE VIIL Showing the cause of Death since the opening of the Asylum. M. F. T. Cerebral or Spinal Diseases— Epilepsy and Convulsions .... 183 83 216 General Paralysis .... .... 637 208 845 Exhaustion of Mania and Melancholia 155 193 348 Apoplexy and Paralysis.... .... 78 49 127 Inflammation and other Diseases of the Brain .... .... .... 36 54 90 Thoracic Diseases— Inflammation of the Lungs .... 97 119 216 Pulmonary Phthisis .... .... 134 253 387 Disease of the Heart, &c.... .... 67 66 133 Abdominal Diseases— Inflammation of the Stomach, Intes¬ tines, C^jC. .... .... .... 23 26 49 Dysentery and Diarrhoea .. .... 15 15 30 Intestinal Obstruction .... .... 1 3 4 Disease of the Liver .... .... 7 5 12 Disease of the Kidneys .... .... 6 9 15 Genera] Debility and Old Age .. .... 27 51 78 Erysipelas, Gangrene, and Abscess .... 9 9 18 Pyoemia.... .... .... .... 1 • • 1 Dropsy .... .... .... .... 3 7 10 Disease of the Temporal Bone.. .... 1 • • 1 Post Pharyngeal Abscess .... .... • • 1 1 Haematemesis .... .... .... 2 « • 2 F GYGI' • « • • •••• » * • # •••• 2 3 5 CftncGr «••• • • • • «♦ • ♦ • • • • 2 7 9 Suicides and Accidents .... .... 27 9 36 Small Pox .. .... .... .... 1 • • 1 Disease of the Hip Joint .... .... 1 • • 1 Chronic Abscesses and Marasmus .... • • 1 1 Lichen Ruber .... .... .... • • 1 1 Addison’s Disease .... .... .... • • 1 1 Puerperal Septicoemia .... .... • • 1 1 Tot&l • • • • 1465 1174 2639](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30308495_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
