Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : twenty-sixth annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1890
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Credit: Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : twenty-sixth annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Number of Patients. Admissions. MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT’S GENERAL REPORT, To the Central Committee of the Royal Albert Asylum. My Lords and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit my twentieth Annual Report, the period comprised being the twelvemonths ending August 31st, 1890. During that period 76 patients (51 males, 25 females) have been admitted into the Institution ; 69 patients (41 males, 28 females) have been discharged ; and 13 (8 males, 5 females) have died. There remain in the Institution 580 patients (389 males, 191 females) as compared with 586 (387 males, 199 females) at the corresponding date last year. The average number resident has been 582, as compared with 560 last year; and the aggregate number under care and training 662, as compared with 642. The maximum number simultaneously resident was 592. The majority of the cases admitted came in early in December,_ an election of 50 patients having taken place at Liverpool in the previous October. It may not be out of place to suggest that, having regard to the delicate health frequently met with in Imbeciles, and the comparative dulness of the winter months for the period of quarantine imposed on new comers, it is advisable that the admission of any considerable number of patients should take place at a more favourable season of the year. Last winter having been comparatively mild, no ill results were noticed beyond the inconveniences consequent on short days; but long journeys in cold weather—such as are necessary for cases from the more distant counties_ would be better avoided. With regard to the cases admitted I may repoit that their physical and mental condition was about the average; but there were 3 cases who could not walk, and 3 epileptics amongst the number. Two of the former have improved considerably; but of the latter, two suffer from such severe fits that it is quite impossible for them to benefit from the arrangements for education and training, which are characteristic of this Institution. Further report will of course be made of these patients when they
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