Report of the Committee of Visitors, and fourteenth annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Wiltshire County Asylum.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, and fourteenth annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY, “ Wilts County Asylum, 9th March, 1864, “This Asylum now contains 379 patients, viz., 154 men, and 225 women. There are also 2 males and 1 female who are absent on leave. “ The following Tabular Statement has been furnished to us in reference to the changes which have taken place since the visit of our colleagues six months ago MALES. FEMALES. TOTAL. Admitted. 26 23 47 Discharged*. 11 12 23 Of whom recovered. 8 12 20 Removed to other Asylums ...... 2 0 2 Died . 15 16 31 “ The number of deaths is much above the average during the winter months, but there seems to have existed no special disease, and the increased mortality can only be attributed to the severity of the season acting upon aged persons. Inquests were held in two cases. One, where the patient died from accidental choking; in the other, the cause of death was burning ; the patient having, during the absence of his attendant, got out of bed and set fire to his bed