DACCA LUNATIC ASYLUM.
79
Register of Deaths in the Dacca Lunatic Asylum during the year 1872.
Number on Ge-
neral Register.
93
24
84
37
158
80
161
Serial No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
NAMES.
Jagannath Gop
...
...
...
Mussamut Jamina
...
...
Rahman Adhikari
...
...
Rashmoni Peshagar
...
...
Ram Chunder Do
...
...
Kasinath Kaibartta
...
...
Pusu
...
...
...
...
District from
whence received.
Dacca ...
Tipperah ...
Furreedpore ...
Dacca ...
Noakhally ...
Dacca ...
Julpigoree ...
STATE ON ADMISSION.
Mental Disease.
Dementia, chronic
Melancholia ...
Mania, chronic ...
Mania, acute ...
Mania, chronic ...
Ditto ...
Ditto ...
Duration.
15 Years ...
Unknown ...
Ditto ...
14 Days ...
11 Years ...
9 Months ...
Unknown ...
Bodily condition and
disease, if any.
Indifferent ...
Bad
...
Good ...
Bad ...
Very bad state of
health.
In an exhausted state
from
protracted
maniacal excitement.
Was cachectic and
suffering
from
diarrhœa.
Duration of
confinement.
Y.
3
2
3
0
0
3
9
M
1
3
3
3
0
5
1
D.
0
3
26
27
25
26
13
DEATH.
Disease causing.
Pneumonia ...
Phthisis pulmonalis
Cholera, spasmodic
Meningitis, chronic
Pneumonia ...
Phthisis pulmonalis
Epilepsy ...
Duration of
disease.
Y.
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
M.
0
0
0
3
0
3
1
D.
4
6
3
5
25
15
13
REMARKS.
For four months had been an inmate of the hospital,
with chronic abscess, chronic dysentery, and, finally,
asthenic pneumonia.
Brain anaemic. Abscess at base of right lung. Both lungs
in the congestive stage of pneumonia. In the intestines
294 lumbrici were found, although santonine had been
given several times.
This poor woman had, before admission, attempted to
commit suicide by cutting her throat. Tracheotomy
was performed, and she wore a tube permanently.
About three months before she died, tubercular disease
of the lungs was detected.
Great serous effusion beneath the arachnoid was found,
and both lungs were infiltrated with miliary tubercles.
Was attacked with cholera at 11 a.m. on the 6th,
and he died of uraemia at 9 a.m. on the 8th January.
Was in a paroxysm of acute mania from the date of
admission till her death. She died of exhaustion.
Great sub-arachnoid effusion, with an œdematous and
softened brain tissue. The liver was intensely con-
gested. There was only one kidney, the right one.
He was sent to hospital the day of his admission, and
he remained a patient till he died. On arrival he had
diarrhœa, and a fortnight afterwards double pneumo-
nia attacked him.
The brain was generally soft. The right lung was hepa-
tised. The left, at apex, was in a less advanced stage
of pneumonia. Throughout the large intestines, irre-
gular patches of ulceration, and of extensive conges-
tion, were found.
This man's health broke down at the beginning of the
cold weather. The brain was anæmic, and beneath
the arachnoid there was a great effusion of serum.
Both lungs were completely disorganised, being infil-
trated with large tubercular masses undergoing sup-
purative changes.
He was in wretched health on admission, and remained
the whole of the time in hospital. He died in an
epileptic fit. Was previously much reduced by dysen-
tery.
The membranes could not be separated from the bone.
In the left lung a few tubercular masses, still crude,
were found. In colon were numerous cicatrizing
ulcers; and in rectum there were large sloughing
ones.