A1941

Transcribed and submitted by Jean Spiegelberg 2008 for the Waupaca County GenWeb Site http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm

Waupaca County Asylum - Weyauwega, WI

Superintendent’s Report

To the Honorable Board of Trustees of Waupaca County Insane Asylum for the Chronic Insane:

Physician’s Report – Mortality List

Name	Age	Date	Cause of death
Ben Zylka	79	July 5, 1940	Arteriosclerosis
Gustav Arendsen	62	July 30, 1940	Arteriosclerosis
Albert Nohr	54	October 18, 1940	Epilepsy
Anna Gilroy	74	November 14, 1940	Cancer of the stomach
Richard Ziehm	66	January 7, 1941	Cerebral Arteriosclerosis
Mina Lee	77	January 27, 1941	Cancer of the stomach
Amanda Mason	49	March 2, 1941	Chronic nephritis
Delbert Duntly	74	April 2, 1941	Chronic myocarditis
Charlie Lebeau	78	June 20, 1941	Arteriosclerosis

Patients Classified according to diagnosis:

	Male	Female
Mental deficiency	14	18
Feeble minded	14	8
Psychosis with cerebral arteriosclerosis	15	11
Dementia precox	10	11
Dementia precox – paranoid	4	6
Demtnia precox - hebephrenic	16	8
Pre-senile psychosis	1	0
Psychosis – manic depressive	5	9
General paralysis	2	1
Epileptic	4	2
Traumatic psychosis	1	0
Psychoneurosis	1	2
Imbecile	1	1
Post encephalitis	1	0
Senile changes	4	1
Unclassified	10	16
Total	103	94

We, the attending physicians, wish to thank the Honorable Board of Trustees, the Superintendent, Matron, and the employees, and Attendants for their cooperation for the performance of our duties.

Respectfully submitted – Attending physicians:
E. H. JONES, M.D.
E. A. WELLER, M.D.

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