Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1848 / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum.
Date:
[1849?]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1848 / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The total number of Patients now in the Asylum is 234 (namely, 117 Males and 117 Females.) The number admitted since the commencement of this year has been 159* (of which number 88 were Males and 71 were Females.) And during the present year 7 Males and 21 Females have been discharged cured, and 18 Males and 12 Females have died. The age of the oldest of the deceased Persons was 79, and the youngest 18 years; and the average age of the whole was 46 years. The weekly charge for the maintenance of Patients has hitherto been 11s.; but it is about to be reduced to 10s. from the 1st of January 1849. The Asylum was visited so recently as on the 22nd instant by two of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy (Mr. Mylne and Dr. Turner;) and we extract the following from the Minutes they recorded on the occasion: t( The Patients were, with very few exceptions, in a composed and comfortable state.—No one was under instrumental coercion or in seclusion ; and the former • Namely— Oxfordshire Patients .. 54 Berkshire ditto.. .. .. 8(> Oxford City ditto . 9 Abingdon ditto. 5 Reading ditto .. .. .. .. .. 4 And one Out-County Patient (Bucks) .. l 159.