Report of the Visiting Committee of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, together with the reports of the medical superintendent and chaplain, and the abstract of account / Bristol Lunatic Asylum.

  • Bristol Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Report of the Visiting Committee of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, together with the reports of the medical superintendent and chaplain, and the abstract of account / Bristol Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Council of the City and County of Bristol. Ube £birt\>*=i£ictbtb annual IReport OF THE VISITING COMMITTEE OF THE LUNATIC ASYLUM FOE THE CITY AND COUNTY OE BEISTOL. Your Committee report that during the past year the condition of the patients has been satisfactory, and the Asylum efficiently maintained. The number of patients in the Asylum on the 31st of Decem¬ ber last was 773; viz., 375 males and 398 females. Of these 731, viz., 345 males and 386 females, were chargeable to the City and County of Bristol; 13, viz., 2 males and 11 females, were private patients; 10, viz., 9 males and 1 female, were out- County patients; and 19 were male patients received under contract with the Asylums Committee of the London County Council. The highest number resident at any one time in the year was 787; viz., 385 male and 402 female patients. In addition to the before-mentioned 731 patients chargeable do the City and County of Bristol, there were on the 31st 2