Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the Borough of Birmingham, presented to the Town Council on the 23rd of January, 1852: being their first annual report : together with the report of the Medical Superintendent and Chaplain also an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1851.

  • Birmingham Borough Lunatic Asylum.
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[1852]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the Borough of Birmingham, presented to the Town Council on the 23rd of January, 1852: being their first annual report : together with the report of the Medical Superintendent and Chaplain also an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE IX. OBITUARY. u *5 Q} <V Age. Duration of Insanity. Cause of Death. Mental and Bodily state a s*ab 3 © K Before Admission. After Admission. on Admission. 28 46 Two years Seven months Exhaustion and meningeal apoplexy. Sub acute mania, health indif¬ ferent. 108 21 One month One month Suffocation in a fit of Epilepsy. Epileptic mania health fair. 91 37 live weeks Tour months Suicide by hang¬ ing. Melancholia, fee¬ ble health. 41 62 Nine years Eight months Effusion upon brain. Dementia, and gen. paralysis.. 94 49 One year Lour months Pneumonia. Ditto ditto 97 69 Many years Eive months Phthisis. Chronic mania, weakly. 138 45 Two years Eive days G-eneralparalysis Mania and para¬ lysis, sinking when admitted. 145 54 One month Eight days Pneumonia. Mania, 3 broken ribs, pneumo¬ nia. 134 30 Two weeks Eive weeks Meningeal apo¬ plexy and inci¬ pient pneumo¬ nia. Mania, with epi¬ lepsy and para¬ lysis. 151 40 Several years Fifteen days Fibrous tumour on the brain. Ditto ditto. 144 65 Two months Six weeks Encephaloid ab¬ dominal tu¬ mour. Yery weak, legs anasarcous, fluid in abdomen, not insane. 150 47 Three years Two months Peritonitis, after operation for strangulated hernia. Chronic mania, health fair, an old hernia. 170 54 Several years Three months Phthisis and psoas abscess. Delusions, phthi¬ sis, disease of elbow joint. 70 62 Two years Fourteen ditto Disease of py¬ lorus. Delusions, shat¬ tered constitu¬ tion. 176 45 Eive days Two months Disease of pylo¬ rus and cirrho¬ sis of liver. Dementia, very thin and feeble