The report of the committee of visitors, superintendent and chaplain of the Cheshire Lunatic Asylum : together with the annual statement of accounts, made to the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, holden at Nether Knutsford, in and for the county of Chester, on Monday, April 6th, 1868.

Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum

Date:: 1868

Credit: The report of the committee of visitors, superintendent and chaplain of the Cheshire Lunatic Asylum : together with the annual statement of accounts, made to the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, holden at Nether Knutsford, in and for the county of Chester, on Monday, April 6th, 1868. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$< 20 CHESTER COUNTY ASYLUM. TABLE IX. Form of Mental Disorder.—Admissions. TOTAL. COMPLICATIONS. \ With Epilepsy. With General Paralysis. With Suicidal Propensities. M. F. M. F. M. F- M. F. 1VT a. n i a. . 52 53 6 2 12 1 15 20 Melancholia. 2 12 2 7 Demfint.ia . 3 1 3 1 ( T rl i o r* v ........ 3 1 1 Amentia < T , Ur 1 1 rr| hum ] i ty. 7 11 2 1 2 Not Insane . 1 68 78 7 4 15 2 18 29 TABLE X. Supposed Cause.—Admissions. MORAL. M. F. TOTAL. M. F. TOTAL Adversity ... 1 1 Club affairs. 1 • • 1 Disappointment in marriage . • 0 1 1 Grief at abstraction of eldest child by husband. • • 1 1 ,, death of husband . , , 1 1 „ ,, mother. • * 1 1 „ „ son . • • 1 1 „ » wife. 2 • • 2 Money matters . 1 • • 1 . Religious excitement. 1 Q fj 4 „ melancholy . 1 • • 1 Reverse of circumstances. 1 • • 1 Trouble ... 1 • • 1 --— 8 9 17 PHYSICAL. Blow on the head . 1 • * 1 Confinement . • • 2 2 Convulsions. • • 1 1 Debility . 1 1 2 Epilepsy. 2 • • 2 Hereditary. 4 2 6$