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, 1851 and special, supplemental reports together with the superintendent's fourth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1851 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1850 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
- North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
- Date:
- 1851
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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, 1851 and special, supplemental reports together with the superintendent's fourth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1851 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1850 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![North and East Ridings’ Lunatic Asylum, Clifton, York, 27th March, 1851. FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. ----- To the Chairman and Committee of Visitors: Gentlemen,—The circumstances under which the Asylum was placed throughout the year 1850, much restricted its useful¬ ness, as only a small number of the applicants for whom admission was sought, could be received, in consequence of the erection of the additional buildings. The rejected Patients were therefore disposed of in various Public and Private Asylums, whilst some, it is believed, were kept in Union Houses, and others with their friends. Happily, there no longer exists any impediment to the ready care of all Lunatic Patients chargeable to the Ridings. The New Wing on the Male side was opened on the 8th January, and on the Female side on the 5th February last. These events followed in less than a year from the time when the Patients commenced the extensive excavations for the basement offices and foundations, which measured 220 feet in length, and in width averaged upwards of 80 feet, by 10 feet deep. The Patients were very often required during the course of the building, for digging trenches, drains, &c., which they executed with cheerfulness. Since the Contractors have left the premises, they have been engaged,—many of the new comers joining them,—in levelling, making slopes, and approaches, and in assisting to build two dry areas which were not included in the contract. It is not, how¬ ever, my province now to report upon the transactions of the present year, but to confine my observations to those of 1850. Males. Females. Total. There were in the Asylum on the 1st ] January, 1850 . 1 f 81 78 159 Admitted to the 81st December, 1850 .. .. 9 9 18 90 87 177 Discharged cured . .. Removed, chargeable elsewhere, or at' 1 > 7 8 the request of friends, being no longer chargeable .J r 8 1 4 Died . 8 8 11 Remaining in the Asylum on the 81st j i 78 V . 1 154 December, 1850 ...J «](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30313740_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
