Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1874.

  • Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum
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1875
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Credit: Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • u a> Sex, Age, in Height, Date © of Admission and •i—i of Death. General History. Table 30—continued. Histoky. Mental State during Bodily State during Residence. Residence. 580 Male, 32. 5 ft. 54 in. June 22,. 1868. Oct. 16, 1874. Soldier; tried at Auck¬ land, New Zealand, v by general court-martial for insubordination and vio¬ lence to superior officer, and sentenced to 4 years p. s. Chronic mania; incoherent, excitable, and apt to be vio¬ lent; sometimes noisy; de¬ lusions, such as that poison was given to him, and that his room was entered at night by some one. Always feeble; towardl end of 1873 began to b< very thin, and was ftm be suffering from cl pneumonic phthisis, after, symptoms of tuT lar disease of the li became apparent, an finally caused Mis death 243 Male, 46. 5 ft. 8 in. Feb. 13, 1865. Nov. 10, 1874. A collier; tried July 1859 at York for cutting and wounding his mother with intent to kill, and acquitted on the ground of insanity. Was sent first to Bethlem Hospital, then to Fisherton House Asylum, and thence to Broadmoor. Demented, incoherent, and apt to be violent. Epileptic; otherwise ii: bodily health generalll Nov. 7th fell in a fit, an put to bed; for 7 hours was scarcely any intern between the fits, which] continued at less fre* intervals until at leng died in one. 320 Male, 35. 5 ft. 10 in. May 5, 1865. Nov. 11,1874. A shoemaker; tried Mar. 13,1865, at Exeter, for at¬ tempting to kill his wife by cutting her throat, and acquitted on the ground of insanity. Irritable and excitable, with numerous delusions, and sometimes violent; partially demented. Epileptic; on Nov. Mil 11.30 a.m., had a fit airing-court, and in succession 139 fits after* up to 9.45 p.m. After had no more fits, bu; next morning exhaust*: