General report of the Committee of Visitors of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum : 1856.

  • County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1856
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Credit: General report of the Committee of Visitors of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum : 1856. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DR. PARSEY^S REPORT This Asylum was opened for the reception of the insane poor of the County of Warwick on the 30th of June, 1852; and, during the subsequent twelve months, nearly all the chronic cases, that had pre^dously been confined in different Asylums in this and neighbouring counties, were removed here. Their removal was necessarily gradual, as none of the wards were at first in a finished state. During the six months of 1852 there were 145 admissions, and 101 in the year 1853 ; of these 156 were removed from other Asylums, or Union-houses ; the majority of the others were brought directly from their homes, where many had been for a long time under the charge of their friends. In the year 1854 there were 62 admissions of patients belonging to this county; in 1855 there were 79; and up to the present date of this year (April 3rd) 32. In the year 1854 20 chronic cases were temporarily admitted from the Asylum for the County of Gloucester, during the enlargement of that Asylum. The whole number received into this Asylum since its opening, has, there¬ fore, been 439, viz., 230 males and 209 females; and of these 122 males and 119 females remain within its walls. Males, Females, Total, At the close of the year 1852 the numbers resi¬ dent were . 58 ... 72 ... 130 86 ... 102 ... 188 112 ... 108 ... 220 124 ... 113 ... 237 That our numbers have not nearly reached their full limit, both the steady increase from year to year, and the experience of other Asylums, tend to demonstrate; and, whilst the majority of counties have found it necessary, after a few years, to make additions to their Lunatic Asylums at a great outlay, and often with the disadvantage of having a building ill-adapted for the requisite enlargement, there is every reason to anticipate that your Committee will have to congratulate themselves on having provided amply, but by no means too extensively, for the wants of this county. The continued influx of patients into County Asylums, and the apparently rapid increase in the numbers of insane poor, without any
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