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Title: | Status epilepticus, the grim reaper of the mental health system in early Victoria. |
Authors: | Bladin, Peter F. |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Publication Title: | Journal of Clinical Neuroscience |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page: | 655 |
End Page: | 660 |
Abstract: | In an era when patients with refractory were managed in mental asylums in the colonial days of Victoria, Australia, the opinion of the administration was that such patients seemed have a benign prognosis. However the decision to collect all female epileptics in the colony and manage them in the Ballarat Mental Hospital, effected in 1901, allowed scrutiny of the progress of a cohort of 96 patients over the first seventeen years of the twentieth century, thereby revealing that under asylum conditions no less than a third of their number died as the result of status epilepticus. The results of this survey and the reasons for such an outcome are discussed. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/1009 |
ISSN: | 0967-5868 |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0967-5868(03)00071-7 |
Internal ID Number: | 00973 |
Health Subject: | BALLARAT HEALTH SERVICES - HISTORY BALLARAT MENTAL HOSPITAL BRAIN DISEASES CONVULSIONS EPILEPSY SEIZURES, CONVULSIVE STATUS EPILEPTICUS |
Type: | Journal Article Article |
Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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