Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1875.

  • Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1876
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Credit: Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1875. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 30. • u Sex, Age, <Z) Height, Date 60 of Admission and »rH of Death. d £ Hibtojiy. General History. Mental State during Residence. Bodily State during, Residenoe. 148 Male, 75. 5 ft. 1 in. July 28,1864. Jan. 19, 1875. Previous occupation un¬ known. Tried at North¬ ampton in July 1337 lor stabbing, and acquitted on fie ground of insanity. Admitted into Broad- mo Ir from the North¬ ampton Asylum. Quite demented, and incapable of giving anvaceouint of him¬ self. A quiet and harmless old man. In fair health until a short time previous tell death, when he was fou: be looking thin, and i suffering from tympai with constant desire 1 to stool, and inabilits pass anything except si fluid motions; died r; unexpectedly from strip] of the ileum and enterit: i 215 Male, 60. 5 ft. 5i in. Nov. 28,1864. Jan. 30,1875. Previous occupation un¬ known ; admitted from the North Wales Asyltiffi ; tried, probably in 1848, for an attempt to murder, having attacked his aunt with a reaping-hook, and acquitted on the ground of insanity. Demented and silent, and, in addition, supposed to be ig¬ norant of the English lan¬ guage, understanding only his native Welsh tongue. In fair health usually; iii had an attack of acute 3 chitis, and was serious!! was again seized with chitis about a fortniglss] fore the date of his deatli: congestion of the lungs s s| vening, died from 1 bronchitis. 239 Eemale, 50. Sept. 26,1864, Eeb. 9,1875. Wife of a shoemaker, and mother of three children, the youngest being 17 years old; charged at Newcastle Police Court with having murdered a neighbour’s child, aged three months, with hav¬ ing attempted to murder an older child, aged 2i years, and her husband, 'by stabbing them ; also with attempting to stab a young man who took the knife from her, and with cutting her own throat; while under remand was certified to be insane, and removed to Broadmoor. Had delusions as to her food and drink being poisoned; very restless, and was heard to threaten other patients; for a time refused all food with great persistence; when her husband visited her, and spent portions of three days with her, she refused to speak to him. Suffered from cough ancr culty of breathing; sig consolidation and soft! deposit in both lungs; health rapidly failed became emaciated, * torated grumous an tremely offensive nnu died from gangrene ( . lungs.