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
Date:
[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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    [comprising an union of the Counties of Oxford and Berks, the City of Oxford, and the Boroughs of Abingdon and Reading, for the maintenance of their Pauper Lunatics.] At the first Meeting of the Committee of Visitors of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Litllemore appointed for the Year 1848 held at the Asylum (pursuant to due Notice) on Wednesday the 26th day of January 1848 (being within one Calendar month after the election of the present Com- mittee) PRESENT Joseph Warner Henley Esquire, M.P. Chairman, The Rev. Philip Wynter D.D. James Morrell Junior Esquire, John Henry Ash hurst Esquire, Edmund Currie Esquire, John Samuel Bowles Esquire, The Rev. Nathaniel Dodson, William Henry Butler Esquire, and William Tiiorp Esquire; Resolved that the following REPORT* of the Superintendent presented to this Meeting be printed and circulated. To * Rule 25.—[of the General Rules of the Asylum.] The Superintendent shall sub¬ mit to the Committee of Visitors, at their first Meeting after the Oxfordshire Epiphany Quarter Sessions annually, a Report, in writing, of the general condition of the Asylum, and the number and character of the Patients ; distinguishing the numbers who have been received and discharged as cured; the number of readmissions ; the number em¬ ployed, and in what manner ; the deaths which have occurred in the preceding year, and also the total number of discharges, cures, and deaths since the opening of the Institution, and specifying the sexes in each statement; with such other facts as the Superintendent may think desirable, or which the Visitors may have suggested.