The reports of the County Lunatic Asylums at Lancaster, Rainhill, and Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 6th of January 1858 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the respective treasurers of the said asylums.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1858
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Credit: The reports of the County Lunatic Asylums at Lancaster, Rainhill, and Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 6th of January 1858 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the respective treasurers of the said asylums. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as your Committee has been informed that similar refusals, and even to a greater extent, have been found necessary at the Rainhill and Prestwich Asylums. A very great majority of Workhouses must be considered as totally unfit for the reception and treatment of urgent cases;—few of them, your Committee believes, are adapted (even yet) for the proper care of the idiotic and imbecile class of patients. These facts seem plainly to indicate that additional Asylum accommodation is much needed for the County. In the beginning of the year your Committee, in consequence of the failing health of the Chaplain, Mr. Danby, thought it desirable that some arrangement should be made for the more efficient discharge of the important duties of that office and in the month of March the Reverend Henry Fielding Smith was appointed Assistant-Chaplain for one year, at a salary of £100., to be paid by Mr. Danby. In October last Mr. Danby died, and in December the Reverend Mr. Onion, of Birmingham, was appointed his successor, at the annual salary of £250., with an allowance of £40. per annum till a Chaplain's residence was provided. No other circumstances have occurred which your Committee considers to require any further special notice $ but as a misunder¬ standing continues to exist in some parts of the County, as to the grounds upon which your Committee usually acts in granting applications from Guardians for the removal of idiotic and imbecile patients from the Asylum to a Workhouse, it seems desirable to repeat what your Committee stated upon this subject in last year’s B