Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session holden at Preston, December 30th, 1869 with an account of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session holden at Preston, December 30th, 1869 with an account of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pauper Lunatics, that, although such as are of a chronic and harmless class may be maintained at a less expense in the Wards of a Workhouse than in an Asylum, the average weekly cost of ' the care and maintenance of the inmates of the Asylum is, of necessity, raised by any proportionate increase in the number of patients who are violent and destructive. The weekly charge for the maintenance of patients belonging to Unions or Parishes within the County has been 8s. 9d. through¬ out the year. The Visitors trust it will be in their power, within a short period, to reduce this charge. J. SHEPHERD BIRLEY, Chairman.