The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylum, Forston, for the year 1856.

  • Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Forston, England)
Date:
1857
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Credit: The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylum, Forston, for the year 1856. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. To the Chairman and Visitors of the Dorset County Asylum. Gentlemen, I beg very respectfully to lay before you a short report of the condition of the Asylum, &c., for the year 1856. On January 1st, 1855, there were in the Asylum 148 patients, viz.—66 males and 82 females, since which time 26 males and 38 females have been admitted, 18 males and 20 females discharged, and 4 males and 11 females have died, and removed to Fisherton Asylum 3 males and 6 females. The number on the books now is 67 males and 83 females, and at Fisherton 21 males and 26 females, therefore the whole number belonging to the County and actually under treatment is 197, viz.— 88 males and 109 females. It will be observed that the number admitted this year is the largest ever recorded since the opening of the Asylum. In the year 1846 the admissions were 27 males and 29 females—total 56 ; whilst this year the numbers were 26 males and 38 females—total 64. The admissions were about the ordinary character;— many were those of old broken-down constitutions, who must necessarily remain here the rest of their lives; many were complicated with epilepsy, and several very severely so. In May last, a poor woman aged 23, lately confined of her first child, was brought here in a dying state, and the