Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Diamond Hugh W.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    There were in the Asylum on the 1st of January last 853 patients; and during the year 360 additional patients were admitted, making a total of 1213. Of these, 64 males and 112 females were discharged cured; 28 males and 21 females were restored to their friends under the provisions of the statute, or were placed in asylums in other counties, in which the parishes to which they respectively belonged were situated; and 57 males and 11 females died; leaving in the Asylum, on the 31st December ]ast, 881 patients; of whom, 396 were males, and 188 females. The applications for the admission of patients during the past year continued undiminished notwithstanding the great number previously received; and it is considered necessary, for the general information of the County, to repeat here, part of the Quarterly Deport of the Com- mittee presented at the last Epiphany Sessions on this subject. “ The Committee regret to report that their “ expectations as to the sufficiency of the “ Asylum for the requirements of the County “ have not been realized. In 1816 it became