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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    at theVommencement of the year to 517 at its close. The present year, however, has been much more cheering, and although the admissions have been more numerous, amounting to 141, the cures have been so much larger in proportion that the number of patients has fallen to 513. Of the 141 admissions 64 presented at their admission some hopes of cure, and there were remaining in the house on 31st December, 1860, 28 cases deemed curable; of these 63 have been discharged cured, and 12 relieved—a proportion showing how large are the hopes of recovery when the patients are sent for early treatment to the Asylum. The deaths have amounted to 64, about 9’7 per cent, of the cases treated. No serious accident has occurred during the year, although several patients with decided suicidal propensities, and some who have made attempts upon their own lives, have been admitted. The general health of the inmates has been satisfactory. The amuse¬ ments of the patients have been carried on as usual, and may now be considered as one of the established modes of treatment in well regulated asylums. The permission to visit their friends out of the Asylum for limited periods has been further extended by the Superintendent of late, with apparently very good effects. The interior arrangements of the Asylum may now be considered as tolerably complete; and it is confidently anticipated that the county will not, for some years to come, be again called upon to make any large outlay in buildings for the accommodation of patients; and whenever such shall be required, the recommenda¬ tion of the Commissioners, contained in their report appended hereto, points to the most inexpensive mode of accomplishing it. The principal airing grounds, which have been laid out almost entirely by the patients, are now complete, and present a very cheerful and creditable appearance. Some of the lower ones, however, still remain in their original state, and are now quite out of character with the rest of the institution, so as to be little used. These it is proposed to re-arrange, and the removal of several high walls and useless out-buildings will afford a con¬ siderable quantity of materials towards the erection of farm buildings and workshops, which are urgently required, but which the many other wants of the institution have caused to be postponed from time to time. The Visitors intend to present
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