[Nineteenth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum].

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1871?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Nineteenth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE COMMITTEE OF DERBY COUNTY Gentlemen, In accordance with the Rule which requires that a Report be presented annually of the Admissions, Discharges, and Deaths which have taken place in the Asylum, I beg to submit the following:— On the 1st of January, 1870, there were in the Asylum one hundred and eighty-three Males, and one hundred and eighty-five female Patients. Of these three hundred and sixty-six were Pauper Patients chargeable to the Unions of the County; and two men were paid for by their friends having been admitted at small cost in the early career of the Asylum, before any pressure for the admission of Pauper Patients was felt; and on the condition that in dress and diet they should in no respect differ from the Pauper Patients with whom they associated. During the year 56 Men and 54 Women have been admitted. Twenty-one male and nineteen female Patients have died; many of these were suffering from incurable disease at the period of their admission, and their deaths were predicated to their friends at that time. The deaths have been caused chiefly by organic diseases of the Nervous System, and were as follow :— General Paralysis, or Paresis . 3 Apoplexy . 1 Epilepsy, with Paralysis . 3 Epilepsy ..... . 4