x. APPENDICES.
Deaths during the year 1899—continued.
No.
|
Name.
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Date of
admission into
the asylum.
|
State of health.
|
Date of last
admission into
hospital.
|
Age
at
death.
|
Date of death.
|
Cause of death.
|
Remarks.
|
374
|
Unknown. Mad- rassi.
|
1st November 1898.
|
Fair ...
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7th December 1898.
|
Years. 27
|
24th April 1899.
|
79, Debility ...
|
Admitted into hospital for debility. She was dirty, troublesome, restless, and destructive. Refused food and medicine, which were given with great diffi- culty. She gradually lost ground and died.
|
Post mortem.— Brain 2 lbs. 3 oz. About 1½ oz. of fluid removed from the cranial cavity. Rather more fluid than usual in both the lateral ventricles. All the organs much atrophied. Mucous membrane of large intestines thickened and congested. Small intestines, the coats thin and atrophied.
|
365
|
Chan ...
|
4th August 1898.
|
Indifferent
|
25th April 1899.
|
50
|
26th April 1899.
|
89 b, Meningi- tis.
|
Admitted into the Asylum in an indifferent state of health. He was dirty, restless, and destructive. On the morning of 25th April 1899 he had epileptic fits with partial loss of consciousness from which he gradually sank and died.
|
Post mortem.—Brain 2 lbs. 8 oz. On opening the duramater a thick layer of dark fibrinous lymph was found covering nearly the whole left hemis- phere. In some places presenting an almost membranous appearance, apparently being of old standing. In other places the lymph was soft and easily friable and there was serous fluid enclosed between the layers of lymph presenting a cystic appearance. Some deposit of firm fibrinous lymph in the right middle fossa of the skull. The quantity of serous fluid in the cranial cavity was more than usual and the superficial vessels of the brain were congested.
|
409
|
Gungama
|
26th April 1899.
|
Bad ...
|
27th April 1899.
|
50
|
30th May 1899
|
798, Inflamma- tion of con- nective tissues.
|
Admitted into the Asylum in bad state of health with several ulcers on his lower extremities. He was troublesome, dirty, noisy, restless, destructive, and refused food and medicine, which had to be given with great difficulty. He had œdema of leg and scrotum which got well under treatment. He had a large abscess on his right shoulder, which was opened. He gradually sank and died.
|
Right lung 1 lb. 12 oz Lower lobe much congested and very œdematous. Left lung 10 oz. Considerable quantity of serous fluid (about 20 oz.) in the left pleural cavity and slight pleuritic adhesions at the apex. Over the right shoulder, a sloughing patch of skin about 3 inches in diameter, under which the tissues were infiltrated with pus.
|
411
|
Ah Kay ...
|
29th April 1899.
|
Bad ...
|
8th May 1899
|
40
|
2nd July 1899
|
89 b, Meningi- tis.
|
Ever since his admission was under treatment in hospital. He was dirty in habits, restless, refused food and medicine. Tube had to be resorted to on one occasion for feeding. The patient gradually lost ground and died.
|
Post mortem.— Brain 2 lbs. 12 oz. Under the duramater, especially on the left side, the superficial veins were gorged with blood. There was a thin layer of fibrinous lymph on the inner surface of the duramater with a little dark-coloured serous fluid in its interstices. Considerable quantity of serous fluid in the cavity of the arachnoid. In the left temporal region a
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