Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C£ necessary to enlarge the Establishment, in 54 consequence of there being no fewer than “ 289 pauper lunatics in the County for whom “ admission into the Asylum was required, “ but for whom there was no room in the “ Building. The Court then directed that pro- £C vision should be made for 500 additional £e patients, and this was completed about the “ close of the year 1848; since which the “ admissions and discharges have been as follows :— Admitted. Discharged or Died. Leaving in Asylum on 31 Dec. 1849. . . . 44]_ . . .. 140.. .. .... 701 1850. ...315 .. .. .. 234.. . . .... 782 1851..... . .. 359.. .. .. .. 288.. .. .... 853 1852. . .. 360. . .. .. .. 329. . .. .... 884 “ Of the total number of patients in the “ Asylum on the 31st December, 1852, 396 u were males, being the extreme number of a patients of this sex the Asylum is capable of “ accommodating; and during the preceding “ three weeks 8 male patients were refused ad* “ mission in consequence of there being no tc room for them. “ The Asylum is sufficiently large to con- “ tain 502 female patients, and there were this