Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st of December, 1857 : with appendix.

  • Bedford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st of December, 1857 : with appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX [a] REPORT OF THE RESIDENT MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. To the Committee of Visitors, of the Beds., Herts., Sf Hunts., Lunatic Asylum. Gentlemen, Compared with the preceding year the number of admissions have been less by 21, viz., 20 males and 1 female, the total for 1857, being only 89 ; of these 83 were males, and 56 females, the form of mental disorders are comprised in 42 cases of mania, 25 melancholia, 18 imbecility, and 6 idiots ; a large proportion of whom have some combination of disease, incurable in its nature, and amongst them were 18, who had been previously in an asylum. In consequence of it having been found advisable to remove a number of patients, to allow admission to the more recent cases, and those already in the several unions, and such an arrangement having been carried out in November last, by the transmission of 30 males to the Worcester County Asylum, and 29 females to Pisherton House Asylum, the discharges would appear to be greatly in excess of last year; but which in reality are 7 minus, with an increase of those discharged relieved. The numbers discharged recovered are 10 males and 19 females ; relieved 9 males, and 7 females ; with one of each sex adjudicated to belong to other counties, and removed to other asylums.