Superintendent's report for 1852 with statistical tables / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1853?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Superintendent's report for 1852 with statistical tables / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Resolved that the following REPORT* of the Superintendent be printed and circulated. To the Committee of Visitors. My Lords and Gentlemen, In the beginning of the year 1852 the increase in the number of Lunatic Inmates progressed, until in August it had attained its greatest amount.—At that time there were thirty-eight more Patients in the Asylum than on the 1st of January: but on the 31st of December last the number was reduced, so as to exceed only by nineteen the maximum of the former year. The admissions of that class of Patients, who being recently attacked afforded hope of speedy recovery, have been less in proportion during the past than in former years. In 1852 for the first time has the number of Females ad¬ mitted been less than that of Males • and the number of Females discharged has likewise been less; —whilst the mor¬ tality in the sexes has been about equal, * Rule 25.—[of the General Rules of the Asyluta.] The Superintendent shall sub¬ mit to the Committee of Visitors, at their first Meeting after the Oxfordshire Epiphany Quarter Sessions annually, a Report, in writing, of the general condition of the Asylum, and the number and character of the Patients ; distinguishing the numbers who have been received and discharged as cured ; the number of readmissions ; the number em¬ ployed, and in what manner ; the deaths which have occurred in the preceding year, and also the total number of discharges, cures, and deaths since the opening of the Institution, and specifying the seres in each statement; with such other facts as the Superintendent may think desirable, or which the Visitors may have suggested.