Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1880.
- Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1880. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![^sentenced have nearly expired ; and special provision for their ■^treatment has been made at the convict prison at Woking. Amongst the persons admitted during the year there were ■five who had previously been inmates of the asylum. One of these had been on the first occasion transferred to a if/county asylum, upon expiration of sentence : another had flbeen sent back to prison; leaving three who had been '^discharged out of custody from this asylum. Of these illatter, one was re-admitted at the request of the relative to oiwhose care he had been discharged, in consequence of iirelapsing into intemperate habits; whilst the other two were re-admitted at their own request. One of these was a man ■who in the first instance was admitted in the year 1870, ■having been acquitted, on the ground of insanity, of the :imurder of one of his grandchildren, and who was discharged (8 conditionally in 1879 to the care of his sons. Early, however, in 1880 he gave himself up to the police, stating that he did not feel well enough to remain any longer at large and asking to be sent back. The other case was that of a woman who 6 was acquitted, on the ground of insanity, of the murder of ■ her sister in the year 1861. She was discharged condi- otionally in the year 1868, but after an absence of twelve I years she wrote a letter stating that she felt unable to r trust herself, and asking to be taken back. It is somewhat h interesting to find that out of 11 persons who have, since the | opening of the asylum, been re-admitted after having been conditionally discharged, six of the number have themselves asked to be taken back, having become aware of their I relapsed condition before it was observed by those around i them. The number discharged out of custody during 1880 was, e as already stated, eight; full particulars with respect to | whom will be found in the seventeenth table, at page 26. From the opening of the asylum down to the end of 1880, the total number of persons who were either discharged or ] sent back to prison on recovery was 167. Of this number 59 were returned to different prisons, leaving 108 who were discharged out of custody. This number, however, requires still further subdivision, inasmuch as 14 of the persons included i in it belonged to the class under sentence of penal servitude or imprisonment, leaving 94 as the number of persons belonging to the class detained during Her Majesty’s pleasure, as it is termed, who have been discharged in the course of 18 years. Re-admis¬ sions. Discharges. Total number of discharges since opem ing of asylum.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30305718_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
