[Superintendent's report for 1854] / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: [Superintendent's report for 1854] / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    case. And the present infrequency of the occur¬ rence may he attributed to the following precau¬ tions. All the Patients who are known to be subject to Epilepsy are supplied with a pillow of well curled Horsehair which is covered with the coarse material used for straining Milk. And in the event of a Patient turning on his face on this Pillow, the breathing is not arrested, but is carried on as through a Respirator. The roughness of the coarse cover of the Pillow is very unpleasant to persons not accustomed to the use of it; and the Patients consequently endeavour, at first, to avoid it. The Patient in question did so bj getting her head under the bed clothes, and thus on to the sheet; whereby death ensued. The number of Epileptics in the Asylum is nearly one fourth of the average number of Patients resident. The Escapes of Patients from the Asylum have been more than heretofore and of a peculiarly resolute and determined character. The criminal Patient J. D. (who in my last Report, was noticed
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