Twentieth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the 1st of January to the end of the year 1867.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1867
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Credit: Twentieth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the 1st of January to the end of the year 1867. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Proposed Counts if tot &0glttm. Resolutions adopted by the Glutton Board of Guardians, December? 1867. “ That it is very desirable that some special 6 provision shall be made for the care, and in some 6 cases for the education of the Idiot and Imbecile c Inmates of the Workhouse, and for many Pauper ‘ Idiots who at present reside with their parents.” “ That this most desirable and necessary ob¬ ject can be best and most economically attained 6 by the establishment of an Asylum in connection ‘with the existing County Lunatic Asylum.” “Thatitisthe opinion of this Board that alarge c number of harmless Lunatics who are at present 6 kept in the Lunatic Asylum, might be kept in c an Idiot Asylum at a considerable reduction of 5 the present cost of their maintainance.” “ That it is the opinion of this Board that in c any county Idiot Asylum which may be estab- 6 lished, arrangements should be made for the ‘ admission of Children of the Middle Classes at the 5 expense of their Parents.”
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