Third report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1855]
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Credit: Third report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE DERBY COUNTY ASYLUM. Gentlemen, The time has returned at which the Rules of the ! Institution require the Superintendent Physician to make a Report of the number of admissions, removals, discharges and deaths which i have taken place during the year, together with such other matters as may appear necessary for the purpose of showing the state and management of the Asylum. The principles upon which the Insti¬ tution is conducted having been fully described in former Reports, it will not he necessary, on the present occasion, to enter minutely into the details of management From January 1st, 1854, to December 31st inclusive, there have been admitted seventy-six Males, and seventy-five Females, making i total of one hundred and fifty-one ; being two more men, and ! eighteen more women, than were admitted into the Asylum during ) he corresponding period of last year. Of these Patients thirty-nine were received from Nottinghamshire; ten from Lincolnshire ; four i'om Northamptonshire; two from Staffordshire; and the remaining linety-six from the County and Borough of Derby. Of the above number, ten Females and nine Males were admitted upon small ayments from their Friends, independently of the respective Boards f Guardians belonging to the above Counties. A