The ninth annual report of the United Committee of Visitors : being the report for the year 1857 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements etc / Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum.

  • Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1858?]
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Credit: The ninth annual report of the United Committee of Visitors : being the report for the year 1857 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements etc / Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than 2 per cent, per annum, it must be still more so to a community where, as in the Leicester Asylum, the Annual deaths average more than 11 per cent, of the number de¬ tained there. The testimony of the Medical Officers of the Asylum is confirmatory of the fears entertained by the Visitors, and it is confidently hoped and believed that the Authorities of the Borough will hesitate before they adopt measures which cannot afterwards be recalled, and which may have the result of inflicting permanent, and it may be fatal injury, on an Institution in which both County and Borough are alike so deeply interested. In the Annual Report of last year reference was made to the want of a proper place for the performance of Divine Service within the walls of the Asylum, and during the past year the attention of the Visitors has been directed to the removal of this evil; more than one plan has been prepared, and brought under the consideration of the Visitors, and the Commissioners in Lunacy; as yet, however, none has been adopted, although the Visitors are fully impressed with the urgent necessity of the case ; it will form a prominent feature in the consideration of any future addition to the buildings. The greatest number of Patients within the house on any one day was 327,—being the number in the house on this day. The rate of mortality during the past year will be seen in the annexed table, the proportion is rather above 11 per cent.; a higher rate than has obtained for several years past, it is known, however, that a higher rate of mortality, both in the Town of Leicester and in the Kingdom in general, has been the rule during the past year.