Snookers, Nagpur, India
Sporting Times, Saturday 08 August 1896
A SAD CASE.
To the Editor of the “Sporting Times.”
Sir,—I enclose a short cutting from the Central Provinces Annual Report on Lunatic Asylums for the year 1895-96. The cutting refers to deaths in the Tabbulpore Asylum. The cause of death in the last case mentioned is very sad, is it not?
“The deaths were due to—dysentery 1, remittent fever 1, old age 3 (85, 85, 81), apoplexy 1 (51), epilepsy 1, pneumonia 1, chronic albuminaria 2, perforation of bowels due to ascarislumbricoides 1; total 11.” “Ascarislumbricoides. — This case was admitted into the Asylum on the 24th April, 1893. She could give no coherent account of herself or relatives; in fact, no information could be obtained about her. She was very emaciated, and a great mud eater.”
—Yours faithfully, Snookers
Nagpur, India, 18th June.