The fourteenth annual report of the state of the lunatic asylum for the County of Nottingham, and the seventy-eighth of the original institution, formerly the General Lunatic Asylum, 1888 / [Nottingham County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Nottingham County Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1889
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Credit: The fourteenth annual report of the state of the lunatic asylum for the County of Nottingham, and the seventy-eighth of the original institution, formerly the General Lunatic Asylum, 1888 / [Nottingham County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY, Nottingham County Lunatic Asylum, November 23rd, 1888. The inspection of this Asylum occupied us to-day. Since our colleagues’ visit in 1887, the number of patients has risen from 315 to 335, but 20 Derby patients will next week leave. There are 7 private cases now upon the books, and 3 male patients of the criminal class. The paupers are chargeable as follows:—277 to the County of Nottingham and its Unions, 18 to the Borough of Nottingham, 10 to Newark, and the rest to Derby. Two male patients are absent on trial. Statutory allowances are here made, when it seems advisable, and there is also a charitable fund for the assistance of those who require it on recovery and discharge The weekly maintenance charge for the County paupers is now 8s.6d The admissions since the Commissioners’ last visit have been 131, of which 18 were upon recurrence of insanity in patients previously here. The discharges have been 52, of these 46 were upon recovery, and 2 were for transfer to other Asylums. The deaths have been 60. The mortality here
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