Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, together with the reports of the medical superintendent & chaplain / Bristol Lunatic Asylum.

  • Bristol Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, together with the reports of the medical superintendent & chaplain / Bristol Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE LUNATIC ASYLUM, FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF BRISTOL, AT STAPLETON, Your Committee feel pleasure in reporting that the state of the Asylum during the past year has been most satisfactory. The number of patients in the Asylum at the date of our last Report was 217, the present number is 221, namely 110 males and 111 females; the greatest number resident at one time being 118 males and 119 females, making a total of 237, the average number being 220. The additions to the building mentioned in our last Report are occupied, and the arrangements prove satisfactory. In kfay last two of the Commissioners in Lunacy visited the Asylum, and it is gratifying to your Committee to add that the Commissioners continue to report favourably of the establishment; a copy of their minute will accompany this Report. During the past year recreations and amusements have been given to the patients, which were enjoyed by a large number of them.