The report of the Committee of Visitors and of the medical superintendent of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1867.

  • West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1868
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Credit: The report of the Committee of Visitors and of the medical superintendent of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1867. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    increase'on T]i0 number of Patieuts resident on the 31st of the previous vear. December, 1866, was :— Men. 530 Women . 598 Total. 1128 It mil thus be seen that an increase of 74 has taken place in the population of the Asylum during the past year. The total number of ^admissions, 436, has greatly exceeded the usual average, being 55 in excess of that of 1866. Accommoda- The whole accommodation of the Asylum is for 1232 tion. Patients, and there are now therefore only 30 vacancies, 29 for Males, and 1 on the Female side. These vacancies are the consequence of recent dis¬ charges, and the vacant beds are already bespoken, so that the Female Department is really fuU, while the accommodation for Males will not in all probability . meet the requirements of the Riding for a longer period than six months. No Male Patients have been refused admission in 1867, but 49 Females have been, for the reasons above stated, rejected. Cases of Lunacy occurring over and above the aggre¬ gate of deaths and discharges from this Institution, will therefore have to be pro^dded for beyond the limits of the Riding, until the completion of the New Asylum, An effort will, however, be made to find room in this Asylum for recent and acute cases, by transferring to