Report of Murray's Royal Asylum, Perth, for the triennial period, 1865 to 1868 / [James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics].

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Report of Murray's Royal Asylum, Perth, for the triennial period, 1865 to 1868 / [James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taken in regal’d to our suggestions as to travel, avoidance of home as a residence, or of any return to old scenes or associations, change of occupation, and so forth. But the patients once furth of the Institu- - tion, and their own masters, these promises are for the most part and speedily forgotten, or are not at all events carried out and acted upon. The following Obituary table exhibits the number and character of Mortality the deaths during the last three years :—- Age at Death. Duration of Residence in Asylum. Form of Insanity. Apparent or Assigned Cause of Death. I. Males— 1. 64 26 Years. Dementia. Marasmus. 2. 55 3 Months. Do. Convulsions terminating Mania. 3. 59 36 Years. Do. Heart Disease—death sudden.* 4. 54 9 Y ears. • Do. Acute Mania. 5. 48 1 Year. General Paresis. Broncho-Pneumonia and Apoplexy. 6. 70 3 Years. Dementia. Heart Disease. 7. 18 J4 Days. Typhomania. Typhomania. 8. 42 2 Years. General Paresis. General Paresis. II. Females— 9. 46. 20 Years. , Dementia. Bright’s Disease (chronic). 10. 83 35 Y ears. Do. Apoplexy. 11. 80 10 Years. Do. Debility of Age. « in the proportion of 7’80 per cent of the total number of patients treated : an unusually high proportion,f accounted for by the exceptionally great mortality among males. Of the latter, two patients were admitted in a condition of extreme physical debility, and died within a fortnight and three months its causes respectively after admission. Two others were admitted in advanced general paresis, doomed to early death; but whose lives had been pro¬ longed by the conservative measures adopted—[and signally by the use of the “ Protection Bed,” to be afterwards alluded to]-—to one and two years respectively after admission. A fifth death occurred sud¬ denly from heart disease : while two others happened in patients long invalided by a complication of serious bodily disorders. Two of the deceased patients—both ladies—had attained the great age of 80 or upv ai ds, one gentleman had reached the age of 70 j one patient was upwards of GO; three between 50 and 60; and three between 40 and oO years of age at the time of decease. The Institution had been a home to two for periods of upwards of 35 years; to two for 20 years or upwards; and to two for nearly 10 years. In two cases only were there post-mortem examinations—viz. in the cases Nos. 1 and 10 respectively of the obituary table. But the Morbid results were of sufficient interest to show the desirability of investi- AnafcomJ-