The twenty-second annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Joint Lunatic Asylum at Abergavenny, for the counties of Monmouth, Brecon, and Radnor, for the year 1874.

  • Joint Lunatic Asylum at Abergavenny
Date:
1875
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Credit: The twenty-second annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Joint Lunatic Asylum at Abergavenny, for the counties of Monmouth, Brecon, and Radnor, for the year 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Medical Journal, 18 men and 27 women were then taking medicine. The number of epileptics of each sex is,24, or thereabouts. We trust that arrangements will presently be made for placing these patients under the charge of special night attendants having no other duties. The patients usefully employed are 115 men and 134 women— 16 of the former at trades, 34 in the garden and about the farm; 26 of the latter assist in the laundry, and 24 do needlework. The average attendance at the Chapel Services on Sundays is low, the returns giving 158 as the total number of patients present, in nearly equal proportion from the male and female divisions. On week¬ days the average number seem to be 36 men, 29 women. The arrangements for out-door exercise are as they heretofore have been. Generally the recommendations made at last visit have received attention. The dietary is unchanged We were present in a ward when dinner was served: it consisted of boiled beef, mutton, and pork, with vegetables and beer. The associated amusements are such as were noticed in the last entry of our col¬ leagues. Of the order and cleanliness of the wards and rooms throughout we can speak very highly; the state of the beds and bedding was very credit¬ able to the attendants: the supply generally of hooks, papers, and means of in-door amusement was good. The airing courts (to which the patients
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