Tenth annual report of the medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum, for the counties of Salop and Montgomery, and for the boroughs of Much Wenlock, Shrewsbury, and Oswestry. 1854 / [Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum].

  • Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum.
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1855
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Credit: Tenth annual report of the medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum, for the counties of Salop and Montgomery, and for the boroughs of Much Wenlock, Shrewsbury, and Oswestry. 1854 / [Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The proportions of Pauper Lunatics and Idiots which were maintained respectively in Asylums, in Workhouses, and in Private Lodgings, on the 1st of January, 1852, were as follow, viz :— Asylums. Workhouses. Private Lodgings. England & Wales 56 per Cent. 24 per Cent. 20 per Cent. Shropshire .... 54 per Cent. 23 per Cent. 21 per Cent. Montgomeryshire 24 per Cent. 12 per Cent. 63 per Cent. During the three years which have elapsed since the foregoing returns were collected, a very considerable additional extent of accommodation in public Asylums has been provided in various parts of the Kingdom. Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hereford, Lincoln, Monmouthshire, Warwick, Wilts, and some of the Welsh Counties, which were all then unprovided with any public Asylum for their Insane Poor, have, either severally or jointly, within this period begun to occupy their respective new Buildings; and in other districts, as Cambridge, Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland, and Westmoreland, Asylums are either in the course of erection or about to be built. Those places which were unprovided with public Asylums were of course under the necessity of placing a considerable portion of their Insane Poor in Houses licensed for their reception; and in the statements above made, the accommodation afforded by such Houses has been reckoned as Asylum accommodation. The lapse of every year, however, must obviously lessen the necessity for this auxiliary provision, and the time is doubtless very near at hand when no such thing will be needed in any part of the Country. * Bevelling to the month of August, 1843, when the duties of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy had just been extended beyond the limits of their original jurisdiction to the entire area of England and Wales, we shall shall perceive that the number of insane Patients then chargeable to the various Unions throughout the Country [exclusive of those belonging to places which were not at that period in Union, fj amounted to 14792.—Of these it appears there were placed * On the 1st of January, 1854, the number of Insane Paupers in licensed Houses throughout England and Wales, amounted to little more than 14 per Cent, of the entire number placed under appropriate Superintend dence.—See the Eighth Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, Page 61, f Estimated on a comparison of the populations at 1972.