Eleventh report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1863?]
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Credit: Eleventh report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From General Paralysis ... 7 „ Apoplexy . 2 ,, Paralysis and Softening of Brain . 5 ,, Epilepsy. 6 „ Exhaustion from Mania. 2 ,, Pulmonary Consumption . 7 „ Cancerous Diseases . 2 ,, Chronic Bronchitis. 1 ,, Atrophy of the Heart. 1 ,, Syncope . 1 ,, Inflammation of Stomach . 1 ,, Acute Jaundice . 1 „ Scrofulous Abscesses . 1 „ General Debility . 3 —40 d i h The Patients admitted have, almost without exception, been in states of great debility, either from long self-imposed abstinence, or from physical disease. Life in many has been sustained only by powerful stimulants ; and several have required the daily use of the Stomach Pump, in order to introduce nutriment into the system, and thus frustrate their morbid design of suicide by starvation, or remove the consequences of some delusion in respect of food. There now remain in the Asylum—of Females In the month of November last, there were one hundred and ft] seventy-seven Female Patients in the Asylum, being two more than tfl there was convenient accommodation for ; and therefore the various Obituary,