The annual report of Dr. Parsey, M.D., medical superintendent of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum, at Hatton, near Warwick, to the Committee of visitors : January 8th, 1864.

  • County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
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[1864?]
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Credit: The annual report of Dr. Parsey, M.D., medical superintendent of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum, at Hatton, near Warwick, to the Committee of visitors : January 8th, 1864. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/68 (page 6)
    I have the honor of presenting to the Committee of Visitors my usual Annual Report on the condition of this Asylum, and on the move¬ ments of the patients during the year 1864, bringing the record of such statistics to the middle of the thirteenth year from the date of its being At the close of the year 1863 the numbers, includ¬ ing one male out on trial, were . During the year 1864 there have been admitted.. )) Discharged- Recovered. Relieved and not > improved ) Died Absent on trial at the end of the year 1864 In the Asylum ,, ,, Daily average number resident... 173 this County, M. F. TOTi.L. 168 210 378 38 46 84 10 20 30 5 5 10 17 21 38 0 3 3 174 207 381 173 217 390 The small increase in the numbers contrasts favourably with that of former years, and may be taken as an indication that they are reaching the limit for which permanent provision will have to be made, if nothing occurs to materially swell the poorer population of the County. This - conclusion is borne out by a comparison of the number of insane poor'^ in this County with that of the inhabitants generally, as given in the last census returns. The officially known lunatics of all classes comprise'- a proportion of rather over two in a thousand of the whole population of' England and Wales—and nearly half of them are confined in County’ and Borough Asjdums—the remainder being in Lunatic Hospitals,,. Private Asylums, Workhouses, or boarded with their friends ; those in. Workhouses, and almost all those boarded with their friends, being alsoc paupers. We may, therefore, estimate the proportion of insane poor at:i present in County and Borough Asylums as 1 in 1000 of the population ;; but the population of this County, exclusive of Birmingham, is, in roundl figures, 260,000, and the County Asylum can afford accommodation fori 430 or about one in 600. It has already had within its walls at thei same time 394 pauper inmates. From this last statement the inference- might be drawn that in this County insanity among the poor is very\ much above the average ; and I am aware that this excess above some:<