The eighth annual report of the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bracebridge, near Lincoln.

  • Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum at Bracebridge
Date:
1861
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Credit: The eighth annual report of the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bracebridge, near Lincoln. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Asylum during the past year was 379, being an in¬ crease of 21 over that of the preceding year; and the subjoined Abstract of Annual Lunatic Returns shews that an increase of 30 has taken place in the total num¬ ber of Pauper Lunatics and Idiots in the county. The number now is 672, and in the previous year it was 642. The Visitors are now proceeding with the work au¬ thorized by the Courts of Quarter Sessions, to provide further accommodation for the stores, on account of the increased number of Patients, and also for the Steward’ whose present apartments will be otherwise occupied; and they have contracted with Mr. Robert Young to build what is necessary for the sum of JP590. G. K, JARVIS, Chairman. April 25th, 1861. Lincoln County Asylum, 10th Sept., 1860. The changes in the Asylum since our last visit on the 20th Nov., 1859, have been as follows M. F. TOTAL. Admitted .. . ........ 46 51 97 Discharged .... ........ 25 25 50 Of whom recovered .......... ........ 18 20 88 Died .... . 27 27 54 The causes of death, generally, have been General Paralysis, Phthisis, Disease of the Brain, and Natural Decay. The deaths from General Paralysis were 8 ; and from ordinary Paralysis 4. The patients, all of whom we have seen, are now 880 in num¬ ber, viz., 178 males and 202 females. The sanitary condition of the Asylum is very satisfactory, the numbers registered as under medical treatment being only six in the male and seven in the female division. One patient only, a male, was, at the time of our visit, in bed on account of serious illness.
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