Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1866
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Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Table No. 25.] POST MORTEM APPEARANCES. Representing the Immediate Cause of Death. M P. Diseases oe Brain and its Membranes :— Disease of Arteries and Old Age. • • 2 Softening and Effusion. 2 . • General Paralysis. 6 1 Epilepsy. 4 • • Apoplexy. . 4 1 Meningitis. 3 • • Disease op Lungs and Pleura :— Phthisis. 4 6 Pneumonia . . 2 4 Bronchitis . 2 Pleurisy. 1 Disease op Heart :— Rupture of Left Ventricle . 1 Valvular disease . 2 Fatty degeneration. • • 1 Diseases within Abdomen:— Renal. 1 Ulceration of Intestines .. 1 1 Scirrhus of Liver. 1 Suicidal Strangulation . 1 • • Cause of Death, in cases where no examination was made: 29 22 Disease of Heart . 1 General Paralysis . 2 1 Softening and Effusion. 2 Phthisis .. 2 2 Senile Decay. 2 2 Total Deaths. 37 28
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