JUMPING MANIA
FATAL SOMERSAULTING LONDON, Feb. 27. "A perfect patient, except that often he stood on his head and turned somersaults without warning," vas the doctor's description of Walter George Crasts, who was admitted to Hanwell asyliwi suffering from jumping mania, and died there. After the medical examination upon being admitted, Crasts dashed out of the room and jumped over iron railings into a well, dropping 20 feet. He was taken to an infirmary with a fractured leg, hut he was standing on his head and somersaulting within three weeks. The verdict at the inquest was that he died of heart failure, following bronchial pneumonia.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 78, 11 March 1931, Page 8
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