Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1850 / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum.
Date:
[1851?]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1850 / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number of Patients admitted since the commencement of the year has been 120* (of which number 58 were Males, and 62 were Females.) Thus the Asylum is nearly full. And, circumstances having- occasionally given us reason to believe that Persons not 11 Paupers” in the literal sense of the word have, by arrangement with the Officers of their Parish, been admit- ted into this Institution; and it being important to prevent this,—wTe desire to call the notice of the Counties to the intention of the Law as to the class of Persons who, ex¬ clusively, should be admitted * in doing which it may be useful to take a review of the Statutes which have been passed with reference to poor Lunatics : The first legislative enactment then, providing for the custody of Lunatics, was the Vagrant Act 17tli George the Second, chapter 5. This contained the only provision ap¬ plicable to Pauper-Lunatics, until the 48 th George the Third, chapter 96, was passed in 1808. That Statute au¬ thorized the erection of County Asylums, for the reception * Namely— Oxfordshire Patients . 5l Berkshire ditto. 49 Oxford City ditto. 11 Abingdon ditto. 3 Reading ditto. 6 Total, 120