The twenty first annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1869.

  • North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum.
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[1870]
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Credit: The twenty first annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1869. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE COMMITTEE For OF VISITORS 1869. The Committee, in publishing their 21st Annual Report, have pleasure in notifying the continued efficiency of the Institution. In obedience to the 16th and 17th Vic., Chap. 97, Sec. 62, they have to certify that the House is in thorough repair, very clean, and comfortably furnished. The number of Patients, now under treatment, amounts to male. FEMALE. TOTAL. Private Patients 10 12 22 Pauper Patients from Counties in Union... 156 165 321 ,, ,, from out Counties 30 14 44 Total... 196 191 387 Since the issue of the last Report of the Committee of Visitors, the excavations, walling and slopes of the Reservoir have been completed, and it has been surrounded by a strong iron railing 7 feet high. Throughout the past Summer, the capability of the Reservoir and the springs rising within it, to meet the wants of the Asylum have been most satisfactorily proved. The stream which forms the principal feeder to the Reservoir, ceased to flow into it in the middle of May, and continued dry up to the 6th November. During this period therefore (nearly six months) the Asylum was supplied wholly from the store of water, and