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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
In a previous number (39) of this Journal are recorded the statistics of the first thousand cases of male patients admitted into the Somerset Lunatic Asylum, with an analysis of the causes of death. The same method is followed in the present communication with regard to the first thousand female admissions; a comparison is made between the sexes, and a general review from some authorities on these subjects.
∗ In nearly 6000 cases by Esquirol, Desportis and Jacobi, the unmarried were more than double the married; nearly 1 in 10 were widowed.Google Scholar
∗ Copland's, ‘Medical Dictionary,’ vol. ii, p. 467.Google Scholar
† Nineteen cases of fatuity in males, and sixteen in females, after sixty years, and including all cases, eighty and upwards.Google Scholar
∗ ‘Library of Medioine,’ vol. ii, p. 165.Google Scholar
† Copland's, ‘Medical Dictionary,’ vol. ii, p. 459.Google Scholar
∗ Taking the population of this county at 445,000, there is one insane person in about 800; the proportion of idiots in the quarterly returns from the Poor Law Unions, added to those in the asylum, is one in 1110, but the accuracy of these returns cannot be relied on, persons in a state of dementia being often classified as idiots in the returns.Google Scholar
∗ In all cases requiring to be fed, a funnel with an œsophagus tube attached is all that is used. The fluid is poured slowly from a jug into the funnel, and descends by its own gravity into the atomaoh.Google Scholar
∗ Several of the cases not examined were also inquest caaes.Google Scholar
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