The eighteenth annual report of the United Committee of Visitors : being the report for the year 1866 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements, etc / Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum.

  • Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum
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[1867?]
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Credit: The eighteenth annual report of the United Committee of Visitors : being the report for the year 1866 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements, etc / Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY ON THE STATE OF THE ASYLUM, AT THEIR LAST ANNUAL VISIT, November 27th, 1866. --»■—- Since our Colleagues’ last visit on the 16th of August, 1865, 29 male and 44 female Patients of the Pauper Class have been admitted; and 4 males and 13 females of the Private Class have also been received. Of the Patients discharged, 2 males and 7 females were Private, and 17 males and 24 females, Pauper Patients. The deaths amounting to 14 in the male and 21 in the female division were all from ordinary causes. These num¬ bers are moderate, and we observe as an indication of the sanitary condition of the Asylum during the past year, that only two deaths were due to consumption. The Asylum now contains a total of 407 Patients, of whom 51 are of the Private and 356 of the Pauper Class. These numbers leave only two vacant beds in each division. How far this narrow margin of vacant accommodation may affect the discharge of Patients, and be the cause of their too early removal, we cannot tell, but it is a fact worthy of notice, that out of the 90 admissions since August, 1865, 24 were re-admissions. We have again to report very favourably of the condition of the Asylum and its inmates. The utmost tranquility and good order prevailed through¬ out, and the personal condition of the Patients was satisfac¬ tory. We had no complaints of harshness on the part of the attendants or nurses, and it is a fact worthy of notice that there has been no change among the male attendants for two years past.
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