Catherine Downey

Date of Birth: 1836

Date of Death: 29th January 1915

Admission Date: 9th February 1910

Diagnosis: Senile dementia

Cause of Death: Senile decay and valvular disease of the heart

Grave Number: 1921

On Maria’s admission to Manor hospital in 1910 she was described as ‘noisy and violent’ and it relates confinement to ‘the padded room’.