Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1852 together with the superintendent's fifth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1852 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1851 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.

  • North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1852 together with the superintendent's fifth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1852 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1851 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    circumstances, it would not meet with objection if they should be hereafter called upon again to raise the amount. They hardly think it necessary to state their persuasion, that the proposed re¬ duction will be accomplished without prejudice to the health, com¬ fort, and general welfare of the patients. J. V. B. JOHNSTONE, Chairman. The surplus charged for out-county patients over that for North and East Ridings’ patients is applied in reduction of the cost of repairs, and has amounted in 1851 to <£163 7s. lOd. North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum, 29th March, 1852. To Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said Ridings, in General Quarter Sessions assembled. Special Report of the Committee of Visitors. The Committee of Visitors have the satisfaction to report to the respective Courts of Quarter Sessions, the completion, on the ot i instant, of the purchase with Earl de Grey for the additional 48 acres, 0 roods, 2 perches, of land, for the sum of £H900. The aggregate number of patients in the Asylum is 280. . e Anniial Report of the Superintendent is appended, and the V lsitors recommend that it shall be printed as formerly. The Commissioners in Lunacy having recently visited the Asylum, the Committee annex a copy of their Report. CHARLES LANGDALE, Chairman, (pro. tern.)