Fifty-sixth annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics, submitted, in terms of their charter, to general meeting of contributors, 13th January, 1870.
- Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1870
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Credit: Fifty-sixth annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics, submitted, in terms of their charter, to general meeting of contributors, 13th January, 1870. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Table 4.—Showing the Causes of Death. Permission Granted.—Ascertained by Post-Mortem Examination in 13 Male and 16 Female Cases—29. Cerebral or Spinal Disease. Apoplexy,. Congestion, Softening, Effusion of Blood and Serum, and other Disease of Brain and its Membranes, Males. Females. Total. 1 1 11 Abdominal Disease. Disease of Bowels and Brain, Disease of Liver, . Cancer of Uterus, . 1 0 0 Other Causes. Apnoea, accidental—a Paralytic Patient, when ) . in the act of Chewing, . . . . J Exhaustion,.0 Senile Decay,.0 0 14 1 1 1 0 1 1 25 Disease of Brain and Liver. 1 ... 0 ... 1 Do. and Epilepsy, 1 ... 0 ... 1 Do. and Maniacal Exhaustion, . 1 ... 0 ... 1 Do. and General Paresis, 12 ... 4 ... 16 Do. and Abscesses of the Gluteal \ t 0 ... 1 JEtegions, .... i ... Do. and Senile Decay, 1 ... 0 ... 1 Do. and Lungs and Bladder, 0 ... 1 ... 1 Do. and Fatty Degeneration of 1 - 1 ... o Heart, .... *4 Do. and Consequences of Injury received from leaping over h o ... 1 ... 1 two-storey window before admission, . . . . Disease of Membranes of Brain and Peri car- ] ditis,.1 1 ... 0 ... 1 Epilepsy, • ••••• 3 ... 0 ... 3 Thoracic Disease. Disease of Heart, Kidney's, and Brain, . 0 ... 1 ... 1 Do. Lungs, and Brain, 0 ... 5 ... 6 Disease of Lungs,. 2 ... 5 ... 7 Pleurisy, «••••« 1 ... 0 ... 1 Pleuro-Pneumonia,. 1 ... 0 ... 1 2 1 1 1 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30316807_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
