Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1878.

  • Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1878. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to; and also whether the figures are in agreement with the Annual Appropriation Accounts, approved by the Comp¬ troller General. The amount of the Parliamentary vote for the financial year was 25,756/., whilst the actual expediture amounted to 23,129/. 175. 9d., so that there remains an unexpended balance of 2,626/. 2s. 3d., which will be] returned into the Exchequer. The number of patients towards whose maintenance con¬ tributions were made, during the year, was 272. The contributing sources comprised counties, boroughs, unions, parishes, the India Office, and, in some cases, the trustees of property belonging to patients. The ordinary amount contributed for each patient was 145. a week, this being the rate in 225 out of the 27*2 cases ; whilst in the other 47 cases the rate varied from 7s. to 175. 6d. a week. These amounts are collected quarterly by the asylum staff, and are paid into the Exchequer under the head of te Exchequer extra receipts’; and the sums thus paid in do not in any way affect the amount of the Parliamentary vote taken annually for the maintenance of the asylum. A new regulation came into force last year by which the sum of 45. a week on account of each patient is repaid to the contributing unions and parishes upon certificates given by the Local Govern¬ ment Board. The total amount collected and paid into the Exchequer during the financial year ending on the 31st of March, under these regulations, was 7,260/. 135. 8<7. Sundry modifications of the staff, having for their object the reduction of expenditure, came into operation during the course of last year. The chief of these changes were, the abolition of the office of matron, and the appointment, instead, of a chief attendant; the abolition of the office of schoolmaster; a reduction in the number of the clerks by one ; and a reduction in the number of the male attendants by six. The cost of the dietary of the patients was also diminished by the substitution, on four days of the week, of four ounces of pudding instead of one ounce of cooked meat. A statement of the present dietary scale will be found at page 73. The general conduct of the attendants throughout the year was good, and there were but few changes in their ranks. Contribu¬ tions by parishes. Changes in the staff. General conduct of the atten¬ dants.