Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1878.

  • Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1878. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Transfers from other asylums. Offences committed by the persons admitted. and ordered by the Secretary of State to return into custody in consequence of having committed an assault upon his wife ; (2), another man, who had effected his escape in the year 1873, and who, having been recognised in the streets of Birmingham by an attendant belonging to this asylum, was thereupon re-arrested; # and (3), a woman, who had been transferred to a county asylum in the year 1877, and who, having been discharged from thence, afterwards com¬ mitted a fresh offence, and was sentenced to a fresh term of penal servitude, and was re-admitted into this asylum from Millbank Prison. With respect to the patients who were transferred from other asylums, one was transferred from a private asylum on financial grounds, and the other two were transferred from a county asylum on account of their dangerous propensities, and of the insufficient number of attendants to protect other patients from their violence. Of the 42 persons who were admitted during the year, 16 men and 11 women were received under orders of deten¬ tion during Her Majesty’s pleasure, as it is termed, whilst 10 men and 5 women were received under sentences of penal servitude. The offences which had been committed by the persons belonging to the former class, excluding re-admissions, were as follows:— Crime. Males. B emales. Total. Murder •• G 1 9 ) 15 Attempt to murder - 4 1 5 Concealment of birth - _ 1 1 Burglary - 1 - u 1 Housebreaking - 1 - . 1 Assault - - - ] -— 1 Larceny - i 1 Unnatural offence - 1 _ 1 Total 15 11 2G * When this man was admitted on the first occasion, he was undergoing a sentence of penal servitude ; and at the time of his escape, in 1873, he was convalescent. When he was re-admitted he did not exhibit any symptoms of insanity, and it was ascertained that he had been working steadily, and earning his living as a stonemason during the interval. The period of penal servitude to which he had been sentenced expired in 187G. Under these circumstances a warrant for his discharge was issued by the Secretary of State.