The sixth annual report of the United Committee of Visitors : being the report for the year 1854 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements / Leicestershire & Rutland Lunatic Asylum.

  • Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum
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[1855?]
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Credit: The sixth annual report of the United Committee of Visitors : being the report for the year 1854 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements / Leicestershire & Rutland Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY ON THE STATE OF THE ASYLUM, At THEIR LAST ANNUAL VlSIT, September 22nd, 1854. Since the visit of the Commissioners on the 29th of October last, 124 new Patients have been admitted (whose certifi¬ cates were dnly produced to us) ;—67 have been discharged and 26 have died. The assigned causes of death in these cases suggest no special remark. The numbers at present in the House are 265. Of these, 21 males and 29 females are Private, — 124 males and 141 females are Pauper Patients. We have seen and examined all of them, and find them in general remarkably quiet and orderly. Two of them we found placed in seclusion in their bed-rooms. No instance of the use of instrumental restraint has occurred since the last visit. We went through and inspected the different Wards, including the day rooms, galleries, dormitories, and single sleeping rooms, which were, without exception, sweet and clean, and sufficiently ventilated. The bodily health of the Patients is in general very good, and there is no epidemic or serious malady prevailing
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