Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, as presented to the Town Council on the first January, 1865, together with the reports of the medical superintendent and chaplain / Bristol Lunatic Asylum.

  • Bristol Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, as presented to the Town Council on the first January, 1865, together with the reports of the medical superintendent and chaplain / Bristol Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sr \ Fund in respect of further improvements in the Establishment, and that the Income will hereafter he found adequate to the ordinary- repairs and maintenance. It is, however, clear that with such large and unforeseen liabilities as have been adverted to, the receipts of the Asylum will bear no diminution, until a sufficient sum shall have been saved to meet contingencies, and to enable the Visitors at the close of every Quarter to pay the Accounts then due out of the actual Cash Balance, instead of anticipating the accruing Income, as to some extent is now necessarily done. The Commissioners in Lunacy continue to report favourably of the Asylum in all its departments. They have made some valuable suggestions for improvements in various details, chiefly as regards the occupation and amusements of the patients. Most of such suggestions have been adopted by the Visitors, and others will he carried out, with reference to pecuniary means and the result of further experience. The conduct of all the Officers and Servants has been most satisfactory, and the thanks of the Committee are especially due to their able and respected Superintendent, Dr. Stephens, whose medical treatment of the Patients has been very successful, and his attention to miAor, but scarcely less important duties has been unremitting. The devotion of the Chaplain to his responsible charge deserves and meets with the full acknowledgment of the Visitors. The Eeport of Dr. Stephens, which is appended hereto, supplies extended and valuable information upon all other subjects connected with the general management and condition of the Patients. These points, therefore, are not dealt with in detail by the Committee. By Order of the Committee, FREDERICK TERRELL, Council House, 30th December, 1864. Chairman.