Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, as presented to the Town Council on the first January, 1864, together with the reports of the medical superintendent and chaplain / Bristol Lunatic Asylum.

  • Bristol Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, as presented to the Town Council on the first January, 1864, together with the reports of the medical superintendent and chaplain / Bristol Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THIRD ANNUAL REPORT Improved Finances. OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. 1863. To the Committee of Visitors of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum. Gentlemen, Respectfully presenting his Yearly Report on the condition and progress of the Asylum committed to his care, your Superintendent (though aware the subject will occupy a place in your Report of the Committee of Visitors) cannot refrain from expressing his gratifica¬ tion at the improved finances of the Establishment, and a confident hope that at no distant period the charges for maintenance of patients will, with safety, admit of reduction. To this end, a watchful and stringent economy, so far as consistent with the necessities of the inmates, pervades every department, and to this important particular the exertions of the Superintendent have been unceasingly directed. The admissions, discharges, removals, and deaths during the past year have been as follows :— In the Asylum. Males. Females. Private. Pauper. Total. Private. Pauper. Total. Dec. 31st, 1862. 2 83 85 5 95 100 Admitted in 1863 5 34 39 2 28 30 Discharged . . 5) 8 8 1 13 14 Removed 2 2 4 2 4 6 Died. 1 15 16 a 8 8 Transferred from' 4 92 96 4 98 102 Private to Pau~ - per List . . > ? >> * » 1 1 } > Remaining on 31 Dec., 1863.. _ 4 92 96 3 99 102