Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st of December, 1853 : with appendix.

  • Bedford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st of December, 1853 : with appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Patients remaining in the Asylum on the 31st of December, 1853, are from the following Counties, &c., viz— NAME OP COUNTY, ETC. M. F. Total. Bedfordshire . 46 51 97 ,, Borough of Bedford.......... 3 4 7 Hertfordshire . 60 59 119 Huntingdonshire .... 21 27 48 Total...... 130 141 271 The Daily average number of Patients during the year has been 271, The average number of Patients attending Cha¬ pel has been 93. The average number of Patients engaged in industrial occupations viz :—Household Work, Handicraft, and the Cultivation of the Parm, has been 129. The number of Deaths during the year has been 20, or a mortality of 6J, per cent on the total number of Patients in the Asylum. 2. As to the sufficiency of the Asylum for the proper accommodation of the Lunatics from the united Counties and Borough, the Committee have again to report it inadequate for their proper accommodation.