Report of the York Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending December 31, 1873.

  • York Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1874
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Credit: Report of the York Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending December 31, 1873. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. The Committee beg to report that, during the past year, the Asylum has made satisfactory progress in the accomplish¬ ment of those objects towards which its chief efforts are directed. 88 patients have been admitted; 26 discharged; and 10 have died ; and 184 now remain under care. The recoveries and deaths have been at the satisfactory rates of 44.73 and 5.43 per cent., and the latter have all been the result of natural causes. The Committee regret that the comparatively sudden and serious increase in the cost of almost all articles of consump¬ tion, and the expenditure of considerable sums of money in necessary improvements, have combined to still prevent their conimencing the erection of the new wings. This, hov/ever, they trust vail prove but a temporary delay, for they con¬ fidently rely upon assistance being afforded by the public, to mark their appreciation of the useful and benevolent work which has, for nearly a century, been effected, by the instrumentality of this Asylum, among the middle-class insane of the county. The Commissioners in Lunacy paid their annual visit in July, and made a very satisfactory report. For further details the Governors are referred to the Keport of the Medical Superintendent, wdrich is presented herewith. JAMES MEEK. WILLIAM WALKEK. KALPH WEATHERLEY. JOHN HOLTBY. EDWIN WADE. JOHN BELLERBY. JOHN COLBURN.
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