Report of the Committee of Visitors, and seventh annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum.

Wiltshire County Asylum

Date:: 1858

Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, and seventh annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Table 6.—Shewing the occupation. Occupation. Male. Pfemale. Total. Parmer’s Daughter. • 1 1 Farm, and other Labourers; their Wives and Daughters 16 11 27 Gardener. 4 • 4 Shepherd. 1 • 1 Butcher. 1 • 1 Maltsters. 2 • 2 Weavers and Cloth-Workers. 3 2 5 Seamstresses.. • 3 3 ! Railway Contractor and Labourer. 2 2 Shoemakers’ Wives and Binders. • 3 3 Carpenters and Coopers .. 3 • 3 Sawyer. 1 • 1 Masons. 3 • 3 Smith, Engineer, and Wife. 2 1 3 Shopwoman. • ] 1 Lodginghouse-keeper and Publican’s Wife. • 2 2 Soldiers, and Pensioner’s Wife. 2 1 3 Barber. 1 1 Huckster. • 1 1 I Hawker. • 1 1 Carrier. 1 • 1 1 Gamekeeper. 1 • 1 1 Hospital Nurses. 2 2 Toll-keeper. • 1 1 Domestic Servants. 1 9 10 1' No occupation. • 2 2* 1 Totftl • • » 44 41 85 * Idiotic from birth. Table 7*—Shewing the religious propession. Profession of Religion. 3 \i I I ■ i M H i' I Church of England . Independents. . . Baptists . . . . Wesleyan Methodists Primitive Methodists Roman Catholics. Moravians. . . . Unknown . . . . Total Male, j Female. Total, 30 32 62 , 2 2 4 6 3 9 2 1 B 2 1 3 1 1 2 • 1 1 1 • 1 44 41 85$