[Superintendent's report for 1854] / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum.
Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: [Superintendent's report for 1854] / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quently attempts to take away the ward keys from her Attendants “by Divine orders.” When she has caused a struggle it is necessary to separate her from the Attendants, and to allow her rest and solitude for a time. The condition of the Patients when admitted to the Asylum is so variable that I have been afraid to think that any one year was a promise of what might follow in the next. The Statistics which the Commissioners have collected do not give information of the Population of the Districts, from which the Lunatics are taken to the respective Asylums which receive Patients from those Districts. And an assumption that the number of Pauper Lunatics in every Asylum would be much the same in proportion to the Population for which it was provided, would be erroneous. For instance the Hanwell Asylum being unequal to the reception of all the Lunatics of the County of Middlesex could at one time not allow the most urgent cases to be sent to it. But the Colney Hatch Asylum, recently