Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1890.

  • Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1891
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Credit: Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1890. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/98 (page 9)
    REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. To the Right Honoerabe Henry Matthews, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State. The report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, made under the Act 23 & 24 Yict. c. 75., intituled <<rAn Act to make better provision for the custody and care of Criminal Lunatics,” for the year ending December 31st, 1890. 1. The Commissioners in Lunacy have the honour to report that in the year 1890 the asylum for criminal lunatics at Broadmoor (being the only asylum appointed under the Act above mentioned) was visited by two of the Commissioners, namely, C. S. Bagot, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and T. Clifford Allbutt, Esq., Doctor of Medicine, on the 27th aua 28th of June 1890. 2. A copy of the memorandum of the visit of the Visiting Commissioners is appended hereto. Dated this 11th day of March 1891. The Common Seal of the~] Commissioners in Lunacy y (l.S.) affixed in presence of J G. Harold Urmson, Secretary MEMORANDUM OF INSPECTION. Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, 2nd December 1890. On June 27th and 28th we paid to this asylum the annual visit of inspection for the year 1890. As on former visits, we found the asylum in excellent order in all its departments, and fully maintaining the high character it has so deservedly gained. It is, however, becoming very full, and there were at our visit only vacancies for eight patients, all in the male division. It is