Second annual report of the Argyll District Asylum for the Insane : 1865.

  • Argyll District Asylum for the Insane
Date:
1865
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Credit: Second annual report of the Argyll District Asylum for the Insane : 1865. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT, FOR THE YEAR 1864-65, PRESENTED TO THE ARGYLL DISTRICT BOARD OF LUNACY. The Medical Superintentendent has the honour of sub¬ mitting to the District Board his Report for the past year. The statistical tables have been calculated as usual up to December 31st. In the first table, which shows the general statistical results, it will be seen that the number resident at the close of the year exceeded the number at the close of the previous year by twenty-seven, and nearly approached the number for which the Asylum was erected. This increase has been gradual during the year; and in the Gradually increasing month of January of the present year (1865J the number numbers, of male patients was sixty-three, and exceeded by four the accommodation for which their wing of the building had been constructed; the number of female patients was fifty-six, which was within four of the accommodation provided for them. In these circumstances, the Medical Superintendent brought the subject before the Meeting of the Board Steps taken which took place in March. It was then evident from ovemwd- the character of the increase, that even at such a 1B£ diminishing rate as might be hoped for, it would neces¬ sitate an addition to the Asylum to satisfy the require¬ ments of the District unless some other mode of relief
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