The eleventh report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1856 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].
- Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell
- Date:
- 1856
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The eleventh report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1856 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and Attendants being the special objects of her furious attempts, and her mode of attack is peculiar; there is not usually any thing in her manner or appearance to indicate that she purposes mischief, and she has perhaps just pre¬ viously spoken calmly to the person upon whom—having watched until she has turned her back, for as long as the face is towards her the individual is safe—she springs with the quickness and ferocity of a tigress, fastening her hands in the hair, and bringing her victim to the ground in an instant. If not immediately rescued, the head of the unfortunate person is dashed repeatedly upon the floor, and it has been found impossible hitherto to detach the hands of this Patient without a quantity of hair having been torn by her from the head of the sufferer. When the Commissioners in Lunacy visited the Asylum in the early part of the year, one of the Female Officers was confined to bed in much suffering, in consequence of having been assaulted by this Patient. It is remarkable, however, that she has only on two occasions attacked the Attendants who, for the time, ’ have had her in charge. The admissions of Patients during the year have been very ] numerous. The cases of Recovery have been above the usual average, and in several instances peculiarly interesting. K. M A. C ., M. XL, A. II., and H. P., were all wives in the very prime of life, and, with the exception of the last, all admitted at the Asylum during the course of the year ; they have been restored in health and peace to their homes and families, and, in every case furnished from the Adelaide Fund, by the bounty of the Committee, with suitable clothing and the means of procuring other solid comforts, paid by weekly in-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30307910_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
