Twenty-first annual report / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.

  • Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1892?]
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Credit: Twenty-first annual report / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are only 2 out-county patients, 9 private patients, and one criminal. The weekly charge for Unions whose patients are admitted is 8/6, the charge for out-county cases is 14s., private patients pay 17/6 per week. We are glad to report that a second medical assistant has been appointed, and is on duty. Suitable rooms have been found over the entrance hall for his accommodation. We understand that he will devote some part of his time to pathological inquiry, and assume that the Committee will supply the necessary apparatus. The admissions since the Commissioners visit on the 15th December, 1890, have been 83 ; the discharges 32; the deaths 43. Of the 32 discharged, 19 were upon recovery. The deaths were all natural—the postmortem examinations have been 38, and 1 body is awaiting autopsy. There has been no inquest. The patients under medical treatment, and so regis¬ tered were 55 last week. The actively suicidal appear to be 35, and the general paralytics 15, of whom as many as 7 are women. The male epileptics are nearly jfth of the total number of patients in the men’s division. Including both sexes there are 72 patients subject to fits. A dormitory has been provided for the suicidal women, and another will shortly be set apart for the men of that class, with a night attendant sitting up in each dormitory. The observation dormitories for epileptics are good. The casualties by falls, &c., have been few, and do not call for special mention. There has been no epidemic. Seclusion is recorded of 1 man and 6 women, the former on 6 occasions for an aggre¬ gate of 52 hours, the latter on 16 occasions, for an aggregate of 126 hours. Two male patients have been restrained for surgical reasons one of them also to prevent self mutilation. A woman has also been restrained to prevent self mutilation. Sleeves and gloves have been the means of restraint used. During inspection the patients were generally well behaved, and no one was noisy or much excited. We were