Superintendent's report for 1848 / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1849?]
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Credit: Superintendent's report for 1848 / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bility that crowding’ the Patients would tend to excite them,— and the Commissioners expressed a hope that the opening of the new Buildings would remove these objections, and also dispense with the use of the Galleries as Dormitories. On all other points in the discipline of the Asylum the Commissioners were pleased to express their satisfaction. The Attendants have been uniformly reminded of their duty in preserving cleanliness and ventilation ; and it is gratifying to report that the Asylum has been free from any general visitation of disease, or any unwonted state of ill health. The numbers of Patients now in the Asylum are—- Males 116 Females 117 Total 233 It will be in the remembrance of some of the Visitors that the Commissioners in Lunacy called attention to the fact of my having once admitted a Patient upon an informal Order. Since that occasion therefore, I have felt it to be my duty to refuse admission in more than one case where the Rules for admission had not been strictly complied with; and, to the importance of the scrupulous observance of which Rules, I would venture to call especial attention ; so as to prevent the miscarriage or non-operation of an Order immediately it is issued. The subjoined Table of the length of time of Patients having been affected with Insanity before admission, wTill shew that the intention of the Law to provide early relief for the Malady, is not carried out; and it is evident that Lunatics who have been harmless in their demeanour and not in bad health, have been