Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1869.

  • County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
[1870?]
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Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1869. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Asylum, with more than 450 patients, having to be done in a space and with fittings on a scale for only 300.# There have been few changes in the working staflf of the Asylum ; the principal one has been the resignation by Mr. Nell of the post of Assistant Medical Officer, after three years’ service, in order to settle in private practice. He was active and zealous in his duties, and left us with many expressions of regret, both from the patients and from those with whom he was associated. He is succeeded by Hr. J. B. Ward, a gentleman highly educated and well trained in his profession, and who gives earnest of being a useful and valuable associate to me in my duties. All the other officers are my old fellow servants, under your Committee; and, if there have been crowded into the last few months occurrences unfortunate and annoying equal to those spread at other times over a series of years, I hope that your Committee, experienced in the unceasing vicissitudes of Asylum life, will extend your indulgence to myself, as immediately responsible to you for any misadventures in the discipline or order of the Institution. W. H. PAESEY, M.H. 1st January, 1870. * Since this was written plans for a new laundry, on a scale to meet the present and prospective wants of the Asylum, have been approved and orderedto be executed.
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