Sixth annual report, 1870 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum.
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sixth annual report, 1870 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![It appears from Table IY. that of 114 patients admitted in 1865, 73 or 5-7ths of the whole still remain in the house, show¬ ing the incurability of their insanity on admission. Of the whole 114, also, not a single case was discharged recovered, or relieved during the year 1870, and only four have died; whereas of those admitted in 1870, nine have already been discharged recovered, four not recovered, while 14 have died. At the foot of Table IY. there is shown the amount of discharges and deaths per cent, on the total admission. It will be seen from this that 42T8 per cent, of the entire number admitted since June, 1865, have died or been discharged, leaving 57'82 per cent, still under treatment. The next Table shows the causes of death during the year. TABLE V., Showing the Causes of Death during the Year. Causes of Death. Males. Females. Total. Cerebral and Spinal Diseases :— Apoplexy and Paralysis... ... Epilepsy or Convulsions . JT JL d General Paralysis of the Insane . 13 13 Maniacal or Melancholic Exhaustion or Decay. Inflammation and other Diseases of the Brain, Softening Tumours, &c. 1 2 3 Thoracic Diseases :— Inflammation of the Lungs, Pleura, and Bronchi .. Pulmonary Consumption . 1 5 4 1 9 Disease of the Heart, &c. 1 1 1 Abdominal Diseases :— Inflammation and Ulceration of the Stomach, In¬ testines, or Peritoneum. Dysentry and Diarrhoea . 1 1 1 1 Pelvic Abscess, Bright’s Disease . 1 1 I Embolism.. 1 1 i Erysipelas. . | Cancer of the Face . 3 Anoemia... 1 General Debility and Old Age . 1 1 ] Accidents ... f Suicides. . d | 25 7 32 | Total . 1 Ascertained by post mortem examination . 1 1 2 v x](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30310271_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
