Superintendent's report for 1853 with statistical tables / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1854?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Superintendent's report for 1853 with statistical tables / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Resolved that the following REPORT* of the Superintendent be printed and circulated. To THE Committee of Visitors. My Lords and Gentlemen, The number of Patients resident, at the close of the year 1853, was 28 more than at its opening. It had risen from 366 to 406, and had again been reduced to 394. The admissions in the year (including the readmission of three Patients within 12 months of their Discharge, and eleven after longer periods,) were barely less than in preceding years, being 107;—they were in 1852—109 ; the average number of Patients sent by their Parishes in five years was 110 in each. The recoveries (39 in number) were equal to those of the previous year; and the Mortality (namely 34 deaths) was diminished. Inquests were held on the Bodies of two Criminal Lunatics, who being Criminals sent by order of the Secretary of State, • 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.