In september 1960 a male patient died of a heart attack and five were treated for shock at the Haslemere Home for the Elderley, Great Yarmouth, when Gladys Elton, 81, performed a striptease.
The next year three more died after Harry Meadows, 87, dressed up as the grim reaper and appeared at the window weilding a scythe.
(Adapted from Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics by William Donaldson, published by Cassell)