Report of the Committee of Visitors, report of the Medical Superintendent, and other papers relating to the asylum : printed by order of the Court of Quarter Session, 31st December, 1861 / Essex Lunatic Asylum.

  • Essex Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1862
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, report of the Medical Superintendent, and other papers relating to the asylum : printed by order of the Court of Quarter Session, 31st December, 1861 / Essex Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following are the general results of the year 1861 :— Males, Females. Total. Patients in the Asylum, 25th December, 1860 ... 187 260 447 Admitted during the year . 63 77 140 Under treatment during the year 250 337 587 Removed, &c., during the year, viz. Males. Females. Total. Recovered ... . 29 46 75 Improved ... . 1 0 1 Unimproved . 0 2 2 Died . . 23 19 42 Remaining in the Asylum 25th December, 1861... 197 67 120 270 467 The two pieces of land purchased with the sanction of the Court for the purposes of the Asylum have been conveyed to C. G. Round, Esq., T. W. Bramston, Esq., M.P. ; T. 13. Western, Esq., John Davis, Esq., and R. C. Barnardiston, Esq., as trustees. The Committee have to acknowledge the receipt of a third donation, the sum of £30, from the Governors of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts. The Committee, deeply feeling the confidence placed in them by the Governors in being made the channel of their bounty to the poor, appropriated the munificent gift to the Benevolent Fund, from which 54 patients have been assisted upon then5 discharge with sums varying from 5s. to £2. In the course of the year, 1,654 relatives and friends of Patients have visited them at the Asylum. In the month of June two of the Commissioners in Lunacy visited the Asylum, and recorded their observations, the material portion of which is as follows :— “ Essex County Asylum, 1st June, 1861. “ We have yesterday and this day visited the Asylum, and have personally examined all the Patients. There are now 461 Patients in the Building, of whom 193 are Males and 268 are Females, three of the whole number being Private Patients. Ro out-County Patients are received at present. “ Since our last visit in October, 1860, 84 Patients have been admitted ; 40 have been discharged, of whom 36 were recovered and 31 have died.
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