Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, December 31, 1863 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, December 31, 1863 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . t OP THE SUPERINTENDENT. Gentlemen, Prestwich Asylum, February 19 th, 1864. I have the honour to submit the Thirteenth Annual Eeport of the Prestwich Asylum. On the 1st of January, 1863, the Asylum contained 504 Patients, of whom 249 were Men, and 255 Women. The admissions during the year amounted to 420; the total number under care and treatment 924. Of these— 52 have been discharged, recovered. 1 ditto relieved. 7 ditto unimproved. 54 have died. V The small number of recoveries as compared with the admissions is to be explained by the fact that a great many patients were transferred from Haydock Lodge and Union