Waupaca County Asylum - Weyauwega, Wisconsin
Physician’s Report - For the year ending June 1919
Transcribed by Paula Vaughan October
2010
To the Honorable Board of Trustees of
Waupaca County Asylum for the Chronic Insane:
I herewith submit my annual report of the medical, surgical and sanitary
condition of the Asylum covering the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919.
As in former years the general surroundings have been carefully guarded
and no sickness has developed through imperfect sanitation or carelessness
on the part of those in charge. Notwithstanding the difficulty experienced
in securing an adequate amount of help for a considerable portion of the
year, the details of management have been cared for in a wonderful manner.
There has bee practically no surgery during the past year except of a
minor nature.
Upon December 27th influenza made its appearance in the Institution and
rapidly developed among both patients and employees. For a few days this
threatened to become a serious matter through our inability to secure
sufficient help. There being ten of the fifteen employees down with the
Flu and the utter impossibility of getting outside help at once made the
prospects very discouraging. This was made still more critical from the
number of severe cases of pneumonia that deve'oped. In spite of it all,
however, the employees all recovered and all but three of the patients
made very good recoveries. With the exception of influenza there has been
nothing out of the ordinary in the way of sickness.
The mortality list for the year is as follows:
Name |
Age |
Date |
Cause of Death |
Alvin Gibbons |
71 |
July 9 |
Exhaustion of Dementia |
William Cowan |
78 |
October 20 |
Exhaustion of Dementia |
Christan Hansen |
30 |
August 7 |
Pernicious Anemia |
Mary Abbott |
48 |
Sept. 5 |
Chronic Nephritis |
August Oelschewski |
29 |
Sept. 18 |
Epileptic Seizure |
Hugh Gressler |
61 |
October 22 |
General Paresis |
Henry Huyckes |
87 |
November 30 |
Hemip'egia |
Mary Philpot |
68 |
December 29 |
Epileptic Seizure |
James Peter Olsen |
27 |
January 4 |
Pneumonia |
Celia Jagoditsch |
34 |
January 2 |
Influenza |
Hattie Carter |
39 |
January 3 |
Influenza |
Margaraventa Poehlman |
69 |
March14 |
Sudden Heart Failure |
Joseph Myers |
81 |
April 11 |
Exhaustion of Dementia |
Claude Cass |
30 |
April 26 |
Endocarditis |
John Jenquine |
48 |
June 30 |
Epileptic Seizure |
NOTE from
transcriber: The dates given July through December would be 1918 and
the remaining dates would be 1919. |
Respectfully submitted,
E.H. JONES, Physician.
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