Superintendent's report for 1850, with statistical tables / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1851?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Superintendent's report for 1850, with statistical tables / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT* of the Superintendent be printed and circulated. To the Committee of Visitors, Gentlemen, In taking a retrospect of the past year, I might be satisfied with reporting that the Mortality of the year has been one half less than in the two preceding years ;—that the amount of sickness has been less ;—and that the number of Patients discharged as recovered, has been rather greater. But it must be added that the mild character of the year has not produced a diminution in the number of admissions. The number of persons who have been sent from the Parishes in the past year, under Chronic forms of Lunacy, is greater than of those suffering from recent attacks. It is possible that the Returns made under the 55th section of the Act, may disclose the number of Lunatics, still resident in their parishes and liable to be sent to the Asylum. The period during which the removal of chronic cases is taking place is one of great anxiety. The condition of the Patients admitted in the year 1848, and the then state of the Asylum, did not relieve that feeling. The transition of another year has put it in evidence that, by contrast with the published experience of other new or enlarged Asylums, the condition of * Rule 25.—[of the General Rules of the Asylum.] 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 sexes in each statement; with such other facts as the Superintendent may think desirable, or which the Visitors may have suggested.