Forty-ninth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1901.

  • County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1902
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Credit: Forty-ninth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1901. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    KEPORT OE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. Worcester County and City Asylum, March 25th, 1901. We made a complete inspection of this Asylum on Saturday, and are able to express a very favourable opinion of its present condition. The Wards in both Divisions are in excellent order, the day rooms being tastefully decorated and supplied with suitable objects of interest and illustrated books and magazines. The bedding throughout is good and well attended to. The sanitary spurs are kept clean, and we are glad to note that a beginning has been made in abolishing urinals in the Annexe. Some of the floors in the Annexe, notably in the F.13 dayroom, are shewing signs of wear, and when they are taken in hand for renewal will, we hope, be relaid with narrow boards and pre¬ pared for dry rubbing instead of scouring. Our colleagues last year suggested the extension of this system of treating the floors, and we think it unfortunate that their recommendation was not adopted when the floor of Female No. 5 was in part relaid. Since the last visit the new Cemetery has been laid out. Nearly eleven months have elapsed since the Asylum was visited by Members of our Board. In the interval 219 patients have been admitted. 101 have been discharged or removed, of whom 83 were on recovery, and 97 have died. These changes leave on the books the names of 1,166 Patients, of whom 527 are men and 639 women; all of whom, with the
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