First report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
[1853]
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Credit: First report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Registers required by the Act of Parliament are regularly kept, and the records made in the Case Book are very complete and satisfactory. About 10 Acres of the Land is already under cultivation by spade husbandry, and we understand that it is proposed gradually to bring the other portions of the Estate into similar cultivation. The Farm Buildings and offices we found well arranged and in good order. Taking into account the short time the Establishment has been opened, we consider it to be in a very satisfactory state and highly creditable to those engaged in its superintendence. (Signed) J. W. MYLNE, Commissioners in S. GASKELL, 4 Lunacy. [copy.] Derby Asylum, 16th Dec., 1852. We have visited this Asylum to-day, and have inspected all the Wards occupied by Patients. We found every part of the Establishment in the best order. The Patients were remarkably tranquil, and no one was in seclu¬ sion. They were very neat in their persons and dress. Two Males were in bed suffering from bodily illness, but on the whole the condition of the Asylum is healthy, and only 7 Patients are registered as being under medical treatment. We regret to learn that Patients are frequently brought to the Asylum in extremely feeble bodily health, and we observe that of the Patients who have died, several had not been admitted more than a few weeks; indeed some of the Patients have never risen from the beds to which they were taken on their admission.