The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year ending December 31st, 1883.

  • Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Charminster, England)
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[1884]
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Credit: The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year ending December 31st, 1883. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Commissioners in thinking that there are serious objections to this arrangement, and that in the event of any further material addition to the class of female patients some con¬ siderable extension of the buildings must be made for their accommodation. The Commissioners in Lunacy have called for a return of harmless-chronic patients, fit for detention in the infirmaries of Workhouses, with the view, it is supposed, of their removal, so as to give some relief to the generally crowded state of the Asylums for paupers. The Visitors have already made some en¬ deavours in this direction but hitherto without much success. They would draw the attention of their brother magistrates and of the Boards of Guardians to the state of things mentioned above, and would recommend that aged persons of weak intellect, who only require good nursing, and can be equally well cared for in Workhouses, should not without special reason be sent, into the County Asylum. The present state of the Loan Account is Principal Money Borrowed ... Paid off £ s. d. 41,000 0 o 37,000 0 013 H Remaining due 4,000 o oq (Signed), JOHN PLOYER, Chairman..