Volume 1

Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / [by the Earl of Shaftesbury].

  • Great Britain. Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy
Date:
1844
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Credit: Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / [by the Earl of Shaftesbury]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We have thought it right to mention the general purport of these Acts, as it will be necessary to advert to some of them in subsequent parts of this Report. The total number of Lunatic Asylums, public and private, which we have thus been authorized to visit, amounts to 166 ; viz.:— 17 County Asylums or Asylums brought within the scope of 9 Geo. IV. c. 40., viz. : etic 12 County Asylums. 5 County and Subscription Asylums. 11 Asylums of a mixed character, maintained partly by subscription and partly by income arising from charitable foundations. 2 Military and Naval Hospitals. 99 Houses licensed by the Justices in Session ; viz. : 59 which receive private patients only. 40 which receive paupers as well as private patients; of which, 4 are parts of W orkhouses. 37 Houses licensed by the Metropolitan Commis- sioners ; V1Z.: 33 which receive private patients only. 4 which receive paupers as well as private patients. pauper patients, and the number of patients in each Asylum on the Ist January, 1844, will be found in Appendix (A). In addition to the Asylums above enumerated, 4 Houses have been licensed by the Justices in Session, and 3 by the Metropolitan Commissioners, since the Ist January, 1844. The Asylums above mentioned, with the addition of the Hospital of Bethlem, comprehend all the Asylums for Lunatics in England and Wales, which are at present expressly recognised by law. B2 Number of Asylums. Appendix (A.) Additional Houses license since Jan. l, 1844,
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