The twenty-fifth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1870 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell
Date:
1870
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Credit: The twenty-fifth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1870 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    some few of the Male Attendants and Female Nurses, but the conduct of the general body lias been good and meritorious. There were in the Asylum on the ^31st of December, 1868, 599 Males and 1,089 Females, At the close of 1869 the numbers were 617 Males and 1,081 Females. The numbers received in the Asylum in the year 1868, were 92 Males and 173 Females, together 265, of which 4 Males and 14 Females were readmissions. In 1869 there were admitted 160 Males and 161 Females, of these 12 Males and 13 Females were cases of readmissions. 21 Males and 70 Females were discharged cured in 1868, and 1 Female as not having been insane. 37 Males and 58 Females were discharged cured in 1869. In 1868 15 Patients were discharged to their friends, and 83 to other Asylums, of these 60 were Middlesex Male Patients removed to the Sussex Asylum to provide room in this Asylum for cases in the Workhouses of a more pressing character. In 1869 24 Patients were removed to other Asylums, 2 at the request of friends, and 1 having been admitted contrary to the statute; There died in 1868 105 Patients, of whom 41 were Males and 64 Females; In 1869 the numbers were 175, of whom
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