Report of the Committee of Visitors, and fifteenth 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:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, and fifteenth 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 20.—Shewing- the number of “ insane persons, lunatics, and IDIOTS,” IN THE COUNTY OF WILTS, CHARGEABLE TO THE SEVERAL UNIONS &C., ON THE 1ST DAY OF JANUARY, 1866.* Unions, &c. In Wilts County Asylum In Private or other County Asylums. Tn Union or Parish Workhouses. In Lodgings] or with their Friends. Totals. Male Fern. Male Fern. Male Fem. Male Fem. Male Fem 1 Alderbury . . 12 18 4 2 1 2 17 22 2 Amesbury . . 3 7 1 • 2 1 6 8 3 Andover! . . • 3 1 • ♦ • 1 A 3 4 Bradford-! . . 8 12 • 5 6 5 14 22 5 Caine. . . . 7 12 10 6 2 6 19 24 6 Chippenham . 16 16 3 13 15 12 34 41 7 Cirencester! . 2 »t . 0 1 1 3 1 8 Cricklade and Wootton Bassett 7 13 2 2 • 6 9 21 9 Devizes . . 13 16 5 3 1 5 19 24 10 Farringdon-! . . • • • • • • • 11 Fordingb ridge-1 1 1 1 1 • 1 2 3 12 Highworthand Swindon . . 10 17 U 2 3 8 7 21 27 13 Hungerford-! . 9 10 it 1 2 • 9 11 12 14 Malmsbury 10 7 9 2 3 4 8 16 18 15 Marlborough . 7 7 It 2 2 2 1 12 10 16 Melksham . . 14 20 It 2 8 8 15 25 43 17 Mere-! . . . 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 4 18 New Forest-! . • • • • « • • 19 Pewsey . . . 10 11 It 9 3 1 11 15 20 Romsey! . . • 2 • • • 2 21 Stockbridge-! . • • • • • • • 22 Tetbury! . . . • • • 9 • 9 . 23 Tisbury! . . 11 7 4 5 3 14 18 26 24 Warminster . 6 18 3 4 6 7 15 29 25 Westbury and Whorwellsdown 4 in 1 1 4 6 9 17 26 Wilton . . . 4 15 It 5 4 5 11 14 31 Extra Parochial Place . . . • • • • • • e • Salisbury CityII 7 11 2 • 2 ♦ 1 1 12 12 Devizes Borougbll Chargeable to the County . . . 3 9 • 2 » • « 5 9 1 2 It • • • • t 2 2 Chargeable to other Counties • • • • • • • • e • Totals 166 *_ 246 j 7 v_ 2 _i 54 i 68 j 71 | 110 298 i 426 Y 412 -Y- 9 v- 122 181 7 V 24 * Extracted from tlie returns of the Clerks of the Unions, to the Clerk to the Visitors. + The Unions marked thus + are only partly in the county of Wilts. t Criminal patients, under order of the Secretary of State at the State Asylum, Broadmoor, or in Private Asylums. 11 The City of Salisbury and Borough of Devizes, not having contributed to its erection, are not entitled to send their patients to the County Asylum, unless under special agreement and at a higher rate,