Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1859 together with the superintendent's twelfth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1859 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1858 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.

  • North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1859
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1859 together with the superintendent's twelfth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1859 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1858 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT. North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum, Clifton, York, ] 8th December, 1858. To Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the Respective Ridings in General Quarter Sessions Assembled. THE TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. The Committee of Visitors are again able to give a satisfactory Report as regards the condition of the Patients and the general working of the Institution. The Superintendent continues, by a careful scrutiny of their individual ailments both of body and mind, and ever mindful of the great value of industrial occupations for the Insane, to provide them with that description of work best adapted to promote their present comfort and their ultimate improvement and recovery. The Male Patients have been engaged in draining, levelling, and in ordinary agricultural operations. A new outfall drain, with seven sediment tanks, have been constructed, and considerable pro¬ gress has been made in extending, heightening, and strengthening the embankment. To such a pleasing extent has the organization of the Asylum reached, that another outfit of Clothing and Bedding for an establishment in the South has been supplied, this being the third occasion of our having rendered similar assistance to kindred Institutions on their first opening. The Committee feel that such examples are proofs' of the spirit and industry capable of being displayed by the Insane when properly instructed.