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REPORT ON THE
Register of Deaths in the Dacca Lunatic Asylum during the year 1872.—(Continued.)
Number on Ge-
neral Register.
76
25
109
65
23
Serial Number.
21
22
23
24
25
NAMES.
Talash Khán
...
...
...
Forman Bee (f)
...
...
...
Pagla Keot
...
...
...
Phul Behaia
...
...
...
Musst. Shama Dassi
...
...
District from
whence received
Dacca ...
Ditto ...
Gowhatty ...
Cachar ...
Sylhet
...
STATE ON ADMISSION.
Mental disease.
Mania, chronic ...
Mania acute ...
Idiotcy ...
Dementia, chronic
Melancholia
...
Duration.
10 or 12 years ...
3 months ...
From birth ...
Unknown ...
3 months
...
Bodily condition and
disease, if any.
Health
apparently
good.
Bad
Health fair ...
Good ..
Ditto ...
Duration of
confinement.
Y.
4
2
2
5
3
M.
0
9
10
0
2
D.
0
1
27
4
2
DEATH.
Disease causing.
Old age ...
Phthisis pulmona-
lis.
Dysentery, chronic
Epilepsy
...
Phthisis pulmona-
lis.
Duration of
disease.
Y.
0
0
0
0
0
M.
8
8
10
1
3
D.
0
0
0
0
0
REMARKS.
Was a very irritable and quarrelsome old man, a dwarf in
build. Great sub-arachnoid effusion was discovered,
and the brain was generally atrophied. The " colum-
næ carniæ" of the heart, and the valves of the aorta,
were cartilaginous. The left side of the heart was
hypertrophied. A few ulcers, with raised edges, were
found in the colon.
This woman, admitted in a state of acute mania, fell into
second childishness, becoming a mere animal in her
habits. Eight months before she died, symptoms of
lung disease appeared. The right lung was completely
disorganised by large cavities, lined with irregular
masses of tubercle. In the ilium numerous large
transverse ulcers were found. In the colon were innu-
merable small circular ulcers. The right lung weighed
1lb 7 ozs.; the left only 7 ozs.
This malformed boy was properly a deaf and dumb
person, who had been charged with committing an
unnatural offence. His health began to fail in October
1871, and it was only by careful nursing that he lived so
long. The brain weighed only 2 lb 3 ozs. A few tuber-
cular masses were found in the lungs, but the immediate
cause of death was extensive ulceration of the large
intestines. The ilium was intensely congested, but no
lesions were found.
This man was a confirmed epileptic. In August he
suddenly became dropsical, without any apparent
cause. The left leg and thigh remained anasarcous,
after the right had recovered. On the 14th September he
had five fits in rapid succession, and during the last he
died. The left common iliac vein was filled with old
clots; the right was healthy. The left femoral artery
and vein were matted together by fibrinous deposit.
In the vein were numerous clots, and its walls were
thickened. The membranes of the brain were firmly
adherent to the skull. At the base of right lung there
was a large unhealthy abscess. The liver was fatty,
and weighed 3lbs. 10 ozs.
Had remittent fever in the end of June. This reduced her
greatly. In the beginning of August she was attacked
with pneumonia, and this was followed by all the
symptoms of phthisis.
The apex and middle lobe of the right lung were found
completely disorganised. The upper part of left
lung was in an equally advanced stage of tubercular
disease. The peritoneum, mesenteric glands, mucous