6282-14-1 Folio 02

Name: Augustus Pfaffenbach,

Aged: 57,

Reg. No. 2,

Admitted: August 15, 1899.

Copy of Statement of Particulars

Reception Order signed by: H. J. Bushby, Dated: December 5, 1884

Sex and Age: m 43

Civil State: Married

Occupation: Tailor

Religion: Wesleyan

First Attack: No

Age on first attack: 40

When and where previously under treatment: 17/2/84 to 18/9/84 Brookwood, Surrey - 5/12/84 to 15/8/99 Colney Hatch (crossed out)

Duration of present attack: 2 months

Supposed cause: Unknown

Epileptic: No

Suicidal: No

Dangerous to others and how: No

Any near relative afflicted with Insanity: Unknown

Union chargeable to: Lambeth

Previous Place of Abode: 25 Granville Bd. Luke St.

Name and Address of Person to whom Notice of Death to be sent: Wife (as below)

Names and Addresses of one or more relatives of the Patient: A. Pfaffenbach, 14 Park Grove, Portway, West Ham

Medical Certificate

Medical Certificate Signed by:

Facts indicating insanity observed by myself at the time of examination viz.:

He is restless. He has delusions that some persons are persecuting him, that his wife is in the company with those persons, that wherever he goes they follow him.

Facts communicated by others viz.:

Charles Judd states that he says that he hears voices now of persons who desire to injure him and who instigate him to commit improper acts. His wife states that they have moved to different places in London to get rid of those voices and persons that he complains of without avail.

Transferred from: Colney Hatch

Condition on Admission

Mental State:-

As far as possible under such Headings as:
Attention, Comprehension and Re-action, Cognition of self and surroundings, including mistakes of identity and appreciation of time and place, States of Stupor and Catalepsy, Memory for recent and remote events, Association and flow of ideas, Coherence, Reasoning power, Hallucinations, Illusions, Delusions, Exaltation, Fantasies of dress, Excitement, Depression, Impulses—General, Suicidal, Homicidal, Erotic, Destructive, Obsessions, Resistiveness or Hostility, Restlessness, Self-employment, Attention to personal needs, Religiosity, Sense of propriety, Lewdness of conversation and conduct, Regard for relatives.

Dull & weak minded. Well nourished. Hears & answers voices, but says he no longer pays any attention to them. His memory is very bad & he has little idea of time or place. Cannot say what year it is & has no idea how long he was at his last asylum.