The twenty-eighth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1873 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.

Date:: 1873

Credit: The twenty-eighth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1873 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$The mortality has been 128, the deaths being thus appor¬ tioned : 62 of Men, 66 of Wo¬ men. The chief causes appear to have been as follows:— General Paralysis in 25 cases, other cerebral diseases in 28, and diseases of the heart and respiratory organs in 44. Post mortem examinations were made upon all who died, with 5 exceptions. Inquests were held on the deaths of 6 Men and 4 Women. The deaths of 2 resulted from Apoplexy (1 of these in a strug¬ gle with another Patient), 3 had received fatal injury from accidental falls, 2 died of Epi- ilepsy, and were found dead in bed. Upon another Patient an in¬ quest was only held on account of his sudden death the day after his admission. In the remaining twTo cases (both of men ) inquiry was necessary in consequence of fractured ribs and other injuries, the cause of which was not however ascertained. Post mortem examina¬ tions were not made in these five cases, as the friends of the deceased objected. 0 * •j tj See reports on these cases of the Medical Superintendents in 1871-2. J$