[Superintendent's report for 1856 with statistical tables] / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1857?]
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Credit: [Superintendent's report for 1856 with statistical tables] / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Resolved that the following REPORT * of the Superintendent he printed and circulated. To the Committee of Visitors. My Lords and Gentlemen, The termination of the year 1856 did not maintain the hope expressed at the beginning of it ; that the time had arrived when a more equal balance might be maintained between the admissions of Patients and their discharges. The number of Insane Inmates of the Asylum again increased. The admissions which were 102 in 1855 were 119 in 1856. The discharges, from all causes, which had been 98 were in 1856 no more than 91. Leaving an apparent increase of 28 persons. They were not all however resident in the Asylum at the same time. The highest number resident on any day in the year showed * 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 re-admissions ; 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.