The fifth annual report of the United Committees of Visitors : being the report for the year 1853 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements / Leicestershire & Rutland Lunatic Asylum.

  • Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum.
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[1854?]
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Credit: The fifth annual report of the United Committees of Visitors : being the report for the year 1853 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements / Leicestershire & Rutland Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Physician and Surgeon, that his continuance in the office would probably be attended with another and fatal attack, he tendered his resignation to the Visitors, which they accepted. Mr. Prosser had been the Medical Superintendent of the Asylum from its foundation in the year 1837; and for many years the entire w^eight of the Establishment, medical and financial, had rested on him : the increase of the Patients rendered a division of labour in some respects essential, but to the last, he manifested a zeal in the welfare of the Insti¬ tution, and he left it in such a state of general advancement and prosperity, that the Visitors deeply regret that any cheumstances should have made it necessary to sever the connexion between them. Miss Thornton, the late Matron, was appointed to that office in the year 1842; her duties had so increased with the extension of the Institution, that the Visitors had deter¬ mined to relieve her of her charge over the management of the Household, in order that her whole time might be devoted to the Patients; and it w^as principally for this purpose that they appointed a Storekeeper, as mentioned in their last year’s Report ; before, however. Miss Thornton could derive the relief from the ehange that w^as intended, she was seized with a fatal illness, under which, after linger¬ ing for several months, she expired in the month of March last. In her the Visitors lost an officer wdth wdiose fidelity to the interests of the Institution they had every reason to be satisfied, and wffiose kindness and attention to the Patients are still remembered with gratitude. In consequence of these events the Visitors issued Ad¬ vertisements, declaring that the situations of Superintendent and Matron were vacant, and inviting Candidates to come forward; numerous applications w ere received for each office, and the election finally took place by ballot at the Asylum, on the 11th day of May, 1853, wffien Mr. Buck was ap-