Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, December 29, 1864 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1865
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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, December 29, 1864 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ One specially interesting new arrangement is the appropria¬ tion, as a place of out-door recreation for the more orderly and trustworthy Patients of both sexes in common, of a good Airing Ground in proximity to the New Buildings. We had this morning the gratification of seeing about 400 Patients enjoying themselves there in games, and listening to the excellent Asylum Band, consisting of upwards of 40 performers. “ The sanitary condition of the Asylum appears, on the whole, to he satisfactory, the Patients last registered as under medical treatment for bodily ailments being 14 on the Male side, and 21 on the Female. “We found several Patients of both sexes in seclusion, under the influence of epileptic or ordinary acute mania, and according to the medical journal the instances of seclusion are very frequent, a circumstance which is no doubt in great measure attributable to the multitude of Patients received within the last few months. In reference also to the Female Patients of the worst class, we have to observe that, owing to the works in progress, they have for some time past been debarred free access to their Airing Court. “ We have to report favourably, as heretofore, of the clean state and creditable order of the several Wards, Booms, and Beds, and the personal condition and orderly demeanour, generally, of the Patients