Margaret Mulheron. Committed by M. C. Blake Probate Judge of San Francisco February 25th 1865. Age thirty five years; native of Ireland; is a widow and has five children - the youngest about three weeks old; occupation, housekeeper. The evidence of insanity is, she talks incoherently; she has been in St. Mary's Hospital and was returned here as insane; she raved day and night so that they were obliged top confine her. She is neither homicidal, suicidal nor incendiary so far as known; this the first attack, first appearing within this month - disease increasing with no rational intervals; no permanent hallucination - is dangerous as all persons in her situation are; has a disposition to injure those with whom she comes in contact; is filthy and destructive; is supposed to have been temperate; has failed in health since the attack. Cause, was confined about three weeks ago - lost her husband about three months ago; together with other difficulty are supposed cause; has been treated at St. Mary's Hospital for a week with no apparent effect. Admitted February 26th 1865. Has no property. Died June 22nd 1866 of Maniacal exhaustion.
[Register Volumes 3 & 4; 1862-1870, p.363]
- California State Hospital Records, 1856-1923. Stockton State Hospital, Commitment Registers. [Ancestry.com]
[Register Volumes 3 & 4; 1862-1870, p.363]
- California State Hospital Records, 1856-1923. Stockton State Hospital, Commitment Registers. [Ancestry.com]
Margaret Mulheron. Committed by M. C. Blake Probate Judge of San Francisco February 25th 1865. Age thirty five years; native of Ireland; is a widow and has five children - the youngest about three weeks old; occupation, housekeeper. The evidence of insanity is, she talks incoherently; she has been in St. Mary's Hospital and was returned here as insane; she raved day and night so that they were obliged top confine her. She is neither homicidal, suicidal nor incendiary so far as known; this the first attack, first appearing within this month - disease increasing with no rational intervals; no permanent hallucination - is dangerous as all persons in her situation are; has a disposition to injure those with whom she comes in contact; is filthy and destructive; is supposed to have been temperate; has failed in health since the attack. Cause, was confined about three weeks ago - lost her husband about three months ago; together with other difficulty are supposed cause; has been treated at St. Mary's Hospital for a week with no apparent effect. Admitted February 26th 1865. Has no property. Died June 22nd 1866 of Maniacal exhaustion.
[Register Volumes 3 & 4; 1862-1870, p.363]
- California State Hospital Records, 1856-1923. Stockton State Hospital, Commitment Registers. [Ancestry.com]
[Register Volumes 3 & 4; 1862-1870, p.363]
- California State Hospital Records, 1856-1923. Stockton State Hospital, Commitment Registers. [Ancestry.com]
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