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

  • Littlemore Asylum.
Date:
[1851?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1850 / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Peridns in question might happen to be admitted to such an extent as to exclude those who are strictly entitled to Admission. The Visitors have always been desirous of avoiding the admission into the Asylum of Criminal Lunatics ; but, great difficulty being occasionally experienced by Magistrates in finding an Asylum for Insane Prisoners, we felt it to be our duty in September last to pass a Resolution 11 that any Pri¬ soners in the several Prisons of the Counties and Towns tl in union becoming Insane, (excepting those who have been “ acquitted by a Jury on the ground of Insanity,) shall be <( admissible into this Asylum, if the Visiting Justices select “ it for recommendation to the Secretary of State, and an u Order be obtained accordingly.” The Statistics of the Asylum have been favorable through¬ out the year, and details of them will appear in the annual Report of the Superintendent to be made to the Visitors at the Meeting next month. The weekly charge for the maintenance of the Patients was 9s. 6d. up to Midsummer last, when it was reduced to its present rate of 8s. 6d. Frequent instances have occurred of Justices of Towns in Oxfordshire and Berkshire signing Orders for the Admission