The report of the committee of visitors, superintendent and chaplain of the Cheshire Lunatic Asylum : 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 9th, 1866.

  • Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1866
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Credit: The report of the committee of visitors, superintendent and chaplain of the Cheshire Lunatic Asylum : 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 9th, 1866. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    16 CHESHIRE COUNTY ASYLUM. TABLE IX. Form of Mental Disorder.—Admissions. TOTAL. COMPLICATIONS • With Epilepsy. With General Paralysis. With Suicidal 1 Propensities. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. Mania. .. 41 41 2 3 8 1 8 14 Mplanphnlifl.... 19 24 2 1 1 1 15 14 l^pmpntia. 13 4 1 10 1 3 2 . (Tdiocv . Amentia •< y , ■'•i- 1 1 rn hppi litv. « • 8 2 2 2 • • • • 2 1 81 73 5 6 19 3 28 31 TABLE X. Supposed Cause.—Admissions. MORAL. M. F. TOTAL. M. F. TOTA,:i Anxiety ... 1 1 Depression of spirits..... 1 1 Disappointment in love... 1 1 Domestic troubles. 1 2 3 Fright. 1 1 Grief at death of relatives . 2 2 „ loss of horses' . 1 • • 1 Jealousy. 1 1 Religious excitement . 2 2 3 10 13 PHYSICAL. Accident. 1 1 Brain fever. 1 1 Childbirth . • • 4 4 Climacteric period of life.. , * 1 1 Debility after ]>rieumonia.. • • 1 1 Disease of brain . 1 1 Epilepsy. 5 3 8 1 1 Erysipelas .. • • 1 1 Fever . 1 1 Injury to head . 2 • • 2 4 t
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