Superintendent's report for 1847 : including some statistics of 1846, - on the 1st of August in which year the asylum opened / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
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[1848?]
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Credit: Superintendent's report for 1847 : including some statistics of 1846, - on the 1st of August in which year the asylum opened / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It must not be omitted in this statement that at the be¬ ginning of the year an Entertainment of music and dancing was given to the Patients, in which both sexes joined. It was much enjoyed; and their is great anxiety shewn for its repetition at this season. The allowing the sexes to meet on the occasion was not what has been usual in Pauper Asylums. It is however, practised in some of them; and I am not conscious of any tendency to ill consequence proceeding from that meeting. It is right that I should notice the state of the Asylum as regards its assets and expenses. It is known that on a small number of Patients the expenses must necessarily be heavy, especially at the opening of the Asylum. At the commence¬ ment of last year there were 110 Patients in the house 5 but at its close there were 134; the average number being 1:25. The total charge for the maintenance at 11s. weekly, amounted to £3583 17s. 4d. The cost of Provisions consumed amounted to £1547 18s. 5d. or 4s. 9d. a head, per Patient, per week; Salaries and Wages £1104 2s. 8d. at the rate of 3s. 4|d. a head • necessaries including Coals, Soap, Candles, &c. £573 15s. 5d. at the rate of Is. 9d. per head; and Clothing, Furniture, Gar¬ den expenses, &c. ; amounting to sums which will altogether arrive at about 11s. per head; but as the accounts will be prepared in minute detail and will go before the Finance Com¬ mittee for audit, it is not necessary that I should attempt complete accuracy in a review of the expenses. The greater economy from the greater number of patients could be shewn by comparison with the expenses of the year 1846, in which, with quite as great a disposition to economy, the cost of Provisions in a cheaper market was 4s. 8|d.; Salaries
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