Tenth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1862?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tenth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Blake) in a discussion upon the Irish District Lunatic Asylums in the House of Commons. The sanitary condition of the Asylum throughout the year has been excellent. Not a case of dysentery, erysipelas, or fever, has occurred. The increased mortality has been caused by the abject condition, and the extensive organic brain diseases under which the Patients were suffering at the period of their admission. The warmth, and efficient ventilation, which can be maintained cotem- poraneously in the coldest day of winter, and sustained by night as well as by day, have been most salutary, and certainly preventive of very serious diseases. The following classification of the causes of death will illustrate that the deaths have arisen chiefly from Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System:— General Paralysis. 11 Softening of the Brain. 4 Apoplexy ... 3 Epilepsy, with Paralysis . 3 Exhaustion after Mania. 3' -with Old Age . 1 Pulmonary Consumption .. 2 Dropsy .. 1 Disease of the Heart. 1 Inflammation of the Lungs, with Fever . 1* General Debility .. 2 ,, ,, with Palsy. 1 ,, ,, with fracture of thigh (Coroner’s Inquest) 1 Old Age.. 3 Causes of Death. * Brought to the Asylum suffering from the above in the last stage of the malady.
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