Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1850 and their special report on the additional buildings together with the superintendent's third annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1850 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1849 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
- North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1850 and their special report on the additional buildings together with the superintendent's third annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1850 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1849 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The cost of maintaining the inmates of a Workhouse has been contrasted with that of maintaining those of a County Lunatic Asylum. As the public are open to wrong impressions on this subject, it may not be amiss to premise that there is generally a large proportion of children and many infants in Workhouses, who are counted with the adults ; whereas the inhabitants of a Lunatic Asylum include but very few children : the patients in this Asylum are all adults. idie above item for provisions amounting to 3s. 3fd., probably does not exceed the average weekly cost of paupers in Workhouses when it is considered that it also embraces the cost of rations of some of the officers and all the resident servants, who necessarily form no inconsiderable part of the household. As legalds the charge of 3fd. tor the farm and garden, it is right to observe that this cost is more than compensated by the supply 01 vegetables, milk, and bacon, to the house, exclusive of the sales effected. The actual payments as shewn in the farm and garden account, are m excess of the receipts by £126 17s. 10|d., upon which the average of 3fd. has been taken ; but did we possess no laim and garden, and had to purchase their products, the weekly cost for maintenance under this head, would have been 9d. The farm and garden have therefore had the effect of diminishing by 5f‘tjie1 weekly cost of maintenance; whilst a further reduction of 34d. has arisen from the earnings of in-door patients, chiefly females, amounting to £135 3s. 3d., as shewn in the miscellaneous receipts, page 25. In many cases insanity produces a flag in the constitutional powers, requiring a generous diet, and often stimulating beverages. 1 he daily average number of patients in this Asylum for the y®? 1848 was 14°: Tlie dai]y average number for 1819 has been 15 <• i ie gradual quarterly reduction made last year in the weekly charge, from 9s. Id. to 7s. from September, has not alone depended upon the average number, exceeding by 17 patients that tor the previous year, but is due in some measure to the increase in the age of the Institution, and to the diminished cost of articles Jr C“ptr- ^4ie exPendlture upon the maintenance and repairs for 1819 has been £402 15s. 91d. less than for 1848. The favorable advancement of the Institution in all departments, and the dimin¬ ished expenses of the past quarter will enable you to again lessen the weekly charge from 7s. to 6s. 8£d. from the 1st January last. INo. establishment should be deemed to be fully organized until the time has arrived when all its powers, resources, and natural products are turned in an economical manner, to their most useful and advantageous purposes. We have not yet reached this period. V anous ways may be devised for the attainment of this object: there should be no superfluous officers and servants, and those engaged ought to be such as can inspire the patients with a desire](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30313727_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
