Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the Borough of Birmingham, presented to the Town Council on the 23rd of January, 1852: being their first annual report : together with the report of the Medical Superintendent and Chaplain also an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1851.

  • Birmingham Borough Lunatic Asylum
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[1852]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the Borough of Birmingham, presented to the Town Council on the 23rd of January, 1852: being their first annual report : together with the report of the Medical Superintendent and Chaplain also an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    § 8 & r- -£ Age. Duration of Insanity. Cause of Death. Mental and Bodily state S O'S) ps <a £ « Before Admission. After Admission. on Admission. 187 83 One month Five weeks Effusion in abdo¬ men and head Delusions, much reduced in health. 25 69 Four months 16 months Disease of blad¬ der and pros¬ tate gland. Senile mania, hypertrophy of heart. 98 71 Several years One year Sanguineous apo¬ plexy. Delusions, para¬ lytic. 175 44 Three months 19 weeks Apoplexy and se¬ rous effusion. Mania with gene¬ ral paralysis 193 37 Two weeks One week Great vascularity of brain, with gen. effusion. A. mania, Epi¬ lepsy, jaundice 96 45 One year Six weeks Effusion on the brain. Mania, much ex¬ hausted, bed sloughs. 7 51 Two years Eight months Ditto ditto. Incoherence, general para¬ lysis. 112 71 Three weeks Ten days Paralysis. Paralytic demen¬ tia, helpless. 114 64 Six weeks 17 days Effusion on the brain. Ditto, bed. sores,, very helpless. 23 31 Five years Ten months Epilepsy. Epileptic demen¬ tia, health good. 116 53 One week Four months General Ex¬ haustion. Melancholia, epi¬ lepsy, very feeble. 50 38 Thirty years 15 months Epilepsy. Epilepsy and de¬ mentia. 80 32 One month One year Effusion in the ventricles. S. A. mania, much reduced.. 171 72 Three years Two months General effusion on the brain. Paralytic mania, helpless. 110 26 One year Nine months Ditto ditto. Ditto ditto. 124 35 Two years Five months Disease of lungs, and large in¬ testines. Incoherence, Phthisis..
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