Report of the County Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester : 1861 / Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.

  • Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum
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[1862]
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Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester : 1861 / Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE YISITING- JUSTICES- --o-O^g^Oo- The following Report of the Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum at WottonT in and for the County of Gloucester, made in accordance with the provisions of the Lunatic Asylums'1 Act, 1853, was laid before the Epiphany Court of Quarter Sessions, held at Gloucester, for the County of Gloucester:— The Visitors of tire County Lunatic Asylum have much satisfac¬ tion in making their Annual Report to the Court of Quarter Sessions on the present occasion, because, for the first time since the opening of the institution, in 1823, they are enabled to announce a diminution in the number of its inmates—not arising from any deficiency of accommodation or refusal to admit any proper applicant, nor indeed from a diminished number of ad¬ missions, but from the more favourable nature of the cases, admitting of more early cure, and consequent discharge. The Visitors had ventured, in their Report for 1859, to express a hope that it might be found as a fortunate result arising from the county then possessing the means of receiving all the lunatics who might be sent from parishes of the county at once into the Asylum, that lunacy, when grappled with in its early and curable stages, would not prove to be a malady so fearfully on the increase as recent statistics had led the public generally to believe. The experience, however, of 1860, was very discouraging, as the cases admitted during that year were of the most unfavourable charac¬ ter, and increased the number of inmates of the Asylum from 489
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