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84 REPORT ON THE

Register of Deaths in the Dacca Lunatic Asylum during the year 1872.—(Continued.)

Number on Ge- neral Register.	Serial Number.	NAMES.	District from whence received	STATE ON ADMISSION.			Duration of confinement.			DEATH.				REMARKS.
Number on Ge- neral Register.	Serial Number.	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.
43	33	Narú Ram Baidya ... ...	Sylhet ...	Dementia, chronic	1 Year ...	Emaciated and anæ- mic.	8	4	15	Cirrhosis of liver	0	11	0	In April he had pneumonia. In September he became dropsical and very anæmic. Pleurisy and diarr- hœa supervened. The liver was small, shrivelled, anæmic, and of a yel- low color. It weighed 1lb 10 ozs. A few tubercles existed in both lungs.
52	34	Dukhani ... ... ... ...	Nowgong ...	Melancholia ...	3 Years ...	Spleen, enlarged; health, indifferent.	0	3	28	Pneumonia ...	0	2	0	Was attacked with pneumonia. On the 30th August she recovered, but was left very weak. At the beginning of the cold season a second attack occurred, which ter- minated fatally. The right lung was congested and œdematous; the left at base was gorged with blood : she died of exhaustion.
198	35	Unknown (Jagat) ... ...	Sylhet ...	Dementia, chronic	Unrecorded ...	Was fat, but showed signs of paralysis.	0	5	23	Phthisis pulmonalis	0	0	1	This man was in the last stage of mental disease on ad- mission. He never spoke, and never showed a trace of intelligence, except when his dinner was placed beside him. He would wear no clothes, and he was quite unconscious of being cold. He, however, ate greedily. On the 2nd December he was found to have dysentery, and was admitted into hospital. On the morning of the 3rd, he drank a cup of hot milk and then laid down, and died. Numerous small tubercular cavities were present in right lung ; none in left : large decolorized clots were found in right side of heart. The mucous membrane of the colon was slightly congested.
46	36	Sheik Kadir ... ... ...	Ditto ...	Ditto ...	23 Years ...	Good, subject to epi- lepsy.	7	2	11	Apoplexy ...	0	3	4	This man was a confirmed epileptic. In January 1872 he had two fits ; the latter one left him hemiptegic. By April he recovered the use of the limbs. On the morn- ing of the 9th December he had a fit which produced deep insensibility. Within twelve hours he had between 30 and 40 fits, and, in the last he died. Beneath dura-mater, and over right cerebrum, an enor- mous clot of blood rested. On the top of left hemis- phere there was a patch of yellow softening, the size of an eight anna piece. In both lungs the pulmonary tissue was puckered, as if abscesses had healed. Tu- bercular deposits were found at these spots.
249	37	Sheikh Pimal ... ... ..	Ditto ...	Ditto ...	1 Year ...	In a wretched, ema- ciated state Liver and spleen both en- larged.	0	1	10	Debility ...	0	1	10	On the day of his arrival he was sent to hospital with fever. He was in a hopeless state of dementia, refus- ing to wear clothes, and passing the whole day howl- ing, singing, or crying. He gradually and steadily wasted away from the date of his admission. Great sub-arachnoid effusion. Right pleura inflamed, and left lung congested. The mucous membrane of the duo- denum was clotted over with innumerable superficial ulcers, having their origin in the glandular structures. The spleen was atrophied.