Report for 1847 / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1848?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report for 1847 / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been made during the past year towards completing the Establishment, have to state that since the beginning of the year Agreements have been entered into with the County of Berks and the Borough of Abingdon, and that an Agreement is also now pending with the Borough of Beading for the junction of those several Bodies with the County and City of Oxford for the maintenance of their Pauper Lunatics at this Asylum. And in all the new cases of Lunacy which have happened in Berkshire for some months past the parties have been sent to this Asylum; whilst the arrangements for receiving the Patients now in licensed Houses and Hospitals are so nearly completed that, in the course of a month, it is expected the greater part, if not all, the Male Pauper Lunatics of the County of Berks and of Abing¬ don may be transferred to this Asylum, and some of the Females ; there not being room however, for all the latter until the new Wing, now in course of erection, is built. The Committee desire to report favorably of the management pursued by the Superintendent, as well in the exercise of his skilful medical care of the Patients as in his mild treatment of them without coercion; and also of his regard to economy in the arrangements of the House. And the other Officers, At¬ tendants and Servants of the Establishment, have conducted themselves to the satisfaction of the Committee, with the excep¬ tion of one or two of the Male-Attendants, whose behaviour was duly censured, and, in one case, marked by a dismissal. The good effects of the Institution have been testified in the instances of many Patients who have been discharged cured, and
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