The seventeenth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1874 : with appendices.

  • Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
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[1875]
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Credit: The seventeenth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1874 : with appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the Asylum on a particular day of the year in the seven past years, including- the number in the Asylum this day ; (2) the average of the seven years ; (3) the proportion each would have been entitled to send in according to their respective quotas of expenses ; (4) the excess ; and (5) the deficiency between those sent in, and what each might have sent: — In the Asylum. 1868 31 Dec. 1869 31 Dec. 1870 31 Dec. 1871 31 Dec. 1872 31 Dec. 1873 31 Dec. 1874 21 Dec. Total of 7 years County ... 116 101 Ill 109 112 110 124 783 \ Isle. 95 95 102 93 96 103 112 696 I Borough... 47 46 53 55 61 56 57 375 258 242 266 257 269 269 293 1854 Total of 7 years. (1) Average of 7 years. (2) Proportion according to quotas. (3) Excess over quota. (4) Less than quota. (5) County ... 783 112 125 • • • 13 Isle... »••••* 696 99 97 2 • • • Borough... 375 53 41 12 • • • 1854 264 263 14 13 On investigating these figures we find that the Isle have during the past seven years exceeded their proper number so little that we recommend that their quota remain as it has hitherto been, viz., 7-19ths. We find that the County has during the past seven years had an average number of thirteen patients less than that Body could, according to their quota, have sent to the Asylum. The Borough have had an average excess of twelve patients over their proper number, equalling nearly 1-19th of the whole.