Royal Albert Asylum for the education and training of idiots and imbeciles belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : eighteenth annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1882
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Credit: Royal Albert Asylum for the education and training of idiots and imbeciles belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : eighteenth annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT’S GENERAL REPORT. To the Central Committee of the Royal Albert Asylum. My Lords and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present my Twelfth Annual Report, as Medical Superintendent, the period over which it extends being 47 weeks, viz., from September 30, 1881, to August 25, 1882. Between the dates named the following changes have occurred in the number of patients : — Admitted ... 42 Males 27 Females Total 69 Discharged ... 15 ,, 17 ,, ,, 32 Lied . 7 j) 2 ,, ,,9 The number of patients resident at the date of the last Report having been 454 (302 boys and 152 girls) the present number is 482 (322 boys and 160 girls.) The average number resident during the 47 weeks included in this Report has been 452 ; the aggregate number under care and training 523 ; and the maximum number simultaneously resident 483. One series only of election cases has been admitted during the year, viz., the 50 patients elected at Sheffield in June last. The mental and physical condition of these patients, speaking generally, is somewhat above the average of those admitted after recent previous elections—a matter for congratulation, seeing that the resources of the Institution are most profitably employed in the training of improvable cases. Of the 32 patients discharged, 20 were those who had com¬ pleted their election period. For the first time in the history of the Institution two patients have been returned, in the form re¬ quired by the Lunacy Commissioners, as “ recovered,” it being Number of Patients. Admissions. Discharges.
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