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Excerpt from Forty-First Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester: October, 1873
The Trustees of, the Worcester Lunatic Hospital Offer their forty-first Annual Report.
Among their other duties, the first consideration of the Trustees has been the interest of the hospital, and the persons committed to their charge.
The number of patients has been unusually large, and the character of many of the cases has been pronounced by the Superintendent as turbulent; but this may be partially owing to the exposed situation of the hospital to the noise of a busy and populous city, which immediately surrounds it.
There has been a more than usual amount of sickness dur ing the year among the patients. In June small-pox appeared in one of the wards, the source of infection being entirely unknown. By immediately removing those attacked to a vacant cottage 011 the new farm, the number Of cases was limited to three, with no fatal result, and no panic was caused either in the house or in the neighborhood. In August and September a number of cases of dysentery occurred, and several who were attacked died. In only one case, however, could the fatal result be attributed to dysentery alone.
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