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DACCA LUNATIC ASYLUM. 79

Register of Deaths in the Dacca Lunatic Asylum during the year 1872.

Number on Ge- neral Register.	Serial No.	NAMES.	District from whence received.	STATE ON ADMISSION.			Duration of confinement.			DEATH.
Number on Ge- neral Register.	Serial No.	NAMES.	District from whence received.	Mental Disease.	Duration.	Bodily condition and disease, if any.	Duration of confinement.			Disease causing.	Duration of disease.			REMARKS.
							Y.	M	D.		Y.	M.	D.
93	1	Jagannath Gop ... ... ...	Dacca ...	Dementia, chronic	15 Years ...	Indifferent ...	3	1	0	Pneumonia ...	0	0	4	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.
24	2	Mussamut Jamina ... ...	Tipperah ...	Melancholia ...	Unknown ...	Bad ...	2	3	3	Phthisis pulmonalis	3	0	6	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.
84	3	Rahman Adhikari ... ...	Furreedpore ...	Mania, chronic ...	Ditto ...	Good ...	3	3	26	Cholera, spasmodic	0	0	3	Was attacked with cholera at 11 a.m. on the 6th, and he died of uraemia at 9 a.m. on the 8th January.
37	4	Rashmoni Peshagar ... ...	Dacca ...	Mania, acute ...	14 Days ...	Bad ...	0	3	27	Meningitis, chronic	0	3	5	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.
158	5	Ram Chunder Do ... ...	Noakhally ...	Mania, chronic ...	11 Years ...	Very bad state of health.	0	0	25	Pneumonia ...	0	0	25	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.
80	6	Kasinath Kaibartta ... ...	Dacca ...	Ditto ...	9 Months ...	In an exhausted state from protracted maniacal excitement.	3	5	26	Phthisis pulmonalis	0	3	15	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.
161	7	Pusu ... ... ... ...	Julpigoree ...	Ditto ...	Unknown ...	Was cachectic and suffering from diarrhœa.	9	1	13	Epilepsy ...	0	1	13	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.