Twentieth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1852.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
Date:
1853
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Credit: Twentieth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1852. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1853.] TABLE 13. Diseases that have proved Fatal. 1852. Previously. Marasmus, ...... 7 64 Apoplexy and Palsy, ..... 3 49 Consumption, ...... 6 44 Epilepsy, ...... 3 42 Disease of the Heart, . . . ... 1 18 Suicide, ...... 1 18 Disease of the Brain, ..... 2 18 Typhus Fever, ..... 0 11 Lung Fever, ...... 0 14 Hemorrhage, ...... 1 5 Dysenteric Fever, ..... 0 9 Cholera Morbus, ..... 0 4 Inflammation of the Bowels, .... 1 7 Mortification of the Limbs, .... 0 3 Dropsy, ...... 1 6 Chronic Dysentery, ..... 0 4 Erysipelas ...... 0 15 Diarrhoea, ...... 1 16 Disease of the Brain from Intemperance, 1 2 Bronchitis, ...... 0 3 Old Age, ...... 6 6 Gastric Fever,. ..... 0 5 Land Scurvy, ...... 0 1 Congestive Fever, ..... 0 2 Concussion of the Brain, .... 0 1 Disease of the Bladder, .... 0 1 Fright, ...... 0 1 Rupture, ...... 0 1 Maniacal Exhaustion, . . • 11 24 Convulsions, ...... 0 2 Cholera, ...... 0 4 Asthma, ...... 0 1 Hydrothorax, ...... 0 1 Cancer, ...... 0 1 Pleurisy, . . * • 0 1 Jaundice, ...... 0 l 45 405 This institution has, during the past year, been blessed with great immunity from acute disease. There is not probably in this community, a neighborhood of numbers equal to the in¬ mates of this hospital, that has been more highly favored in this respect, than we have. As a general rule, our patients have good appetites. They eat heartily and fully. Except