Twenty-eighth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1879.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1880?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Twenty-eighth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1879. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mwiL Dekby County Asylum, Nov. 12th, 1879. When our Colleagues last visited this Asylum, just 12 months ago, they, at the commencement of their Report, stated that pro¬ ceedings for a Union, under the Lunacy Acts, of the County and Borough of Derby, had progressed as far as settling the terms of agreement in that behalf, between the Committee of Visitors and a Committee appointed by the Council of the Borough; and that plans for the enlargement of the Asylum had been submitted to our Board, and would be forwarded to the Secretary of State as soon as the Union was accomplished. We learn, however, that all nego¬ tiation has now fallen through, and we see, by the local Paper of the 10th inst., that the Borough Lunatic Asylum Committee have requested that a deputation be received by our Board with a view of obtaining some modification in the requirements. In these circum¬ stances it appears to us that the question of an Asylum for the Insane Poor of the Derby Borough (there are at present 54 Borough Patients in the Asylum) is as far as ever from a satisfactory solution. Since November 14th, 1878, the date of our Colleagues’ visit, the changes following have occurred Admitted. Males. .. 92 ... Females. .... 74 . Total . 166 Discharged “ Recovered ” . .. 49 .. .... 31 . . 80 ,, ‘‘Relieved”. 5 .. .... 8 ...... . 13 ,, “ Not Improved ” . .. 19 .. 5 . . 24 Of those who were discharged as “ not improved,” 18 were sent