– M – White – 16 yrs – recommended his confinement, finding him insane, suffering from Stupidity.
This boy is of a quiet & retired nature. He does all that he is told to do at the prison or work house, but at home, is uncontrollable. His mother says that he entered a man’ s house, stripped himself naked, overturned the furniture, and when asked what he was doing, answered to get out of the way, he was the boss of the place. He answers rather correctly to questions asked but foolishly. His principal answer being“ I don’ t care."
March 4th, 1883. Last evening he managed to steal a dessert table knife from the mess room, and though the knife is very dull he managed to cut his throat, opening the wind pipe, and bled from the subcutaneous( 2 in number) arteries. The superficial jugular vein on the left was partially severed. Surgical assistance saved him.
– F – White – 27 yrs – Insanity on day of Admittance – Hallucination, to-day the same – Imagines that snakes are after her, with obscene intentions.
To-day, she is in a continual state of terror caused by“ a creature who is up stairs, and is going to stab her to death”. Her movements are quick & nervous. Her look inquisitive & fugitive. She will speak rationally, and all at once, she will stop, turn her eyes in an opposite direction, and speak by signs to some imaginary being.
If you call her attention to you & ask her what is the meaning of this, she seems not to understand you, she will resume her rational conversation with you, then again suddenly interrupt it to again speak by signs with her imaginary object or person. Her general health is good. Her nights often sleepless. She will cry. In her rational conversations she is gay, jovial & pleasant, & yet says that“ something is tormenting me & preying on my mind”.
– M – W –?? yrs – Insanity on day of Admittance – Delirium of Grandeur.
His very witty. Imagines himself as a very accomplished surgeon. Says he owns a reputable medical practice, and has the means of saving hundreds of lives a day. If medical conditions are mentioned to him, his face radiates with joy, and he becomes talkative. If any one contraries him, teases him or denies his imaginary medical practice, he becomes furious, abusive & aggressive. On all other subjects he is perfectly sane and rational.
We have been unable to obtain any information about him, from any sources whatsoever.