Report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, at the Epiphany Sessions, 1867 / [Hants County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum
Date:
[1867?]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, at the Epiphany Sessions, 1867 / [Hants County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lunatics in Asylums being transferred from tlieir Parishes to the common fund of their Union. So that notwithstand¬ ing the circumstance that in the 12 months 24 Patients of a harmless character had been removed to Workhouses, the year 1863 commenced with a number of Inmates (583)— as high as the daily average for the year. Now during that year the recoveries and deaths almost balanced the admissions, yet we find that at the end of the year, there remained in the House but 549 Patients—-the result of the removal, just before Christmas, of a number of Portsmouth Patients to the Asylum at Fisherton. In the year 1864 and 1865, an unusually large number of discharges occurred in consequence of the great mortality during those years; yet in the former year, the number of Patients had increased by 25, and in the latter year, by 16 more; and the increase in the number of Patients now in the House exceeds that at the commencement of the present year by 30. Thus wre see that during the past 3 * years, the number of Patients has been steadily increasing, and that there are now in the Asylum 71 more Patients than at the commence¬ ment of the year 1864, and this notwithstanding the fact that no Patient has been admitted from the Portsea Island Union since the 9th of last August. From the events of the year, I would select the following as specially requiring notice in the Annual Report. The birth of an infant, the mother having been admitted in a state of Mania, only a few weeks before her confinement, both the mother and child did well, and have left the Asylum.
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