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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    ] the past year has been 8s. lid. a week as against 8s. lOd. 3 last year; and the Income from the Patients being now f sufficient to cover all the expenses of their maintenance; I the Visitors have been enabled to carry out the arrangement referred to in the last Report as under their consideration, ! with reference to the money received from the Borough of » Leicester, by way of Lodging money; the resolution adopted r; by the Visitors is, to carry so much of this amount to the i credit of the Repairs and Furniture Account, as is in pro- ij portion to the number which Borough Patients bear to the | whole number in the Asylum. Of the balance, to carry one- I fifth to the Charity Account, the remainder, if any, to the i credit of the Building Account. This arrangement is so I obviously just to all parties, that it has only been delayed by i the late high price of food, and the unwillingness of the Visitors to increase the present weekly rate of maintenance. The usual tables have been prepared, and are appended to this Report; they will give complete and ample informa- I tion of the general working of the Institution, both with W reference to medical statistics, the employment of the m Patients and the general economy of the Asylum. The i Visitors are satisfied with its present condition, and the I 3*1 Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy on their last annual m visit, will shew the opinion they also entertain on the same hi subject. The Capital Fund of the Charity has been increased by i} the receipt of the balance of a Legacy, left many years ago 7 by the late Mr. Heycock; the payment has been delayed by a variety of causes, over which the Executors had no