Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Asylum, or placed in some other Institution for the Insane, “ in consequence of their having become, with the inmates of “ the Workhouse,4 a mutual annoyance to each other.’ Any “arrangement short of an entire separation from the other “inmates of the Workhouse, will be found to be inefficient,” No. 4. The Special Report of the Committee, presented at the Easter Session, 1858. Special Keport of the Committee of Yisitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum, on the reference of the Court, at the Epiphany Sessions in January last, respecting the best means by which increased accommodation may be pro¬ vided for the Pauper Lunatics of the County. The Committee having received from the Commissioners in Lunacy an intimation that additional buildings of an inexpensive kind might be erected for the purpose required, together with an offer on the part of the Commissioners to confer with the Committee of Yisitors thereon, have had much pleasure in inviting the Commissioners, and in meeting some of them in conference on the subject. In the interview which took place at the Asylum, on Saturday, February 6th, little was said with respect to designs, and nothing decided; but statistics, having reference to the number of Pauper Lunatics in the County, which had been prepared by Mr, Bridgland, the Steward of the Asylum, were submitted and considered. They are as follows : —