The final report of the committee appointed to provide an additional pauper lunatic asylum, and resolutions of the court / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch
Date:
1852
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Credit: The final report of the committee appointed to provide an additional pauper lunatic asylum, and resolutions of the court / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ixThe admissions have .been! as follows:— Ml>3 iO JdOOO'} lo uoit'ioqo'iq odj 'a.» idales.^’ ' Females. vr] li ijjqj.n r; In the First week fix Second „ 32 101 0' ‘Vtr J 'Ion 24 71 [tr li ' viii Fifth „ 28 il3 to ilf.hij*-] Mill Sixth „ ISix-fcH .1 25 *<oi^ j Seventh,, 31 104 - Eighth „ 34 oniM d.Tj 22 Ninth „ ^ ooirr-Ji* ^ .bl'infid But while your | Committee acknowledge the zealous and C arn ° instant co-operation of many of the eastern parishes and unions there wei4 a'few who did'^^not take trfe same view of the matter, and' even declined to aid' ’ yoin' Committee'^ in carrying iilto^ effect, to the fullest extent^ 'thalf^nibst desirable object of eastern and western classificatidh oh^ which the original promote|-s of two separate a^lums for the use of the county had based some of their mosh potenti arguments in its favouF.uvTiroAH S to iiyrxeS. oxii' (Tit'’will, no doubt, be rec.^Jle(>ted^jth,at^.shortIy|.after the present Committee had been appointed last year, a scheme was pre^smited by them to the Court for dmding the'^Cdimty for the purposes^ of the two asylumsi into an eastern and a western district, and the greatest care taken^ by your Com¬ mittee so to make that.divisionCwithldue >referenGe ’to the amount of population in each, and tlie contemplated superi^ ority of^size ' df Colney Hatch over jl iHanwell, that each asylum might be comparatively equally full, with only a sufficient surplus accommodation in each fpr the admission of
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