The nineteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1864 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell

Date:: 1864

Credit: The nineteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1864 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$besides a black eye and severe bruises, had a fracture of one of the bones of the forearm. Nine were fastened in straight waistcoats and one was bound with a rope. The mental malady assumed the form of Mania in seventy-seven cases, of Melancholia in forty»three, of Imbecility in forty-four, and of Dementia in one. General Paralysis was associated with the disorder in thirty-three cases and Epilepsy in sixteen; there was a double complication of Paralysis and Epilepsy in five cases. Disposition to Suicide was ascertained to exist in fifty - three cases ; several of these manifesting the tendency to self-destruction had made attempts on their lives in various ways previous to admission wounds in the throat were apparent in some, one had mutilated his hand, and another completely emasculated himself. The ages of the Patients, their occupations, the causes and duration of the disease, with other useful particulars, will be found in the annexed statistical tables, carefully drawn up by Mr. Willson, as heretofore. Jmcnciryes.—m the thirty-eight Patients who left the A.-sylum recovered sixteen had been under treatment for periods varying from three to six months; fourteen, be¬ tween six and twelve months; five, between twelve and eighteen months; one, a year and nine months; one, two years ; and one, two years and two months.$