Report of the Committee of Visitors, and first annual report of the medical superintendent of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Wiltshire County Asylum.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, and first annual report of the medical superintendent of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 * REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. Presented at the Hilary Sessions, 1852. We have to report that the Asylum having been opened for the reception of Patients on the 19th of September, there have been admitted 73 Males and 94 Females, making a total of 167; and that orders have been signed for the reception of 46 more; which will complete the whole number of Pauper Patients in the several Private Asylums, belonging to the different Unions throughout the County. Having thus admitted the Patients whose case was most urgent, we are in a condition to receive Patients from Work- houses, and others who may, from time to time, become insane. We have had notice of several, and we take this opportunity of impressing on all who have charge of the poor, that it is most desirable no time should be lost in sending any person to the County Asylum who may be at-