Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session holden at Preston, December 26th, 1872 with the account of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1873
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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 holden at Preston, December 26th, 1872 with the account of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the year, 173 males and 200 females have been admitted into the Asylum ; 55 males and 99 females have been discharged, of whom 45 males and 84 females were cured or relieved ; and 48 males and 38 females have died. There are now 545 males and 589 females on the books of the establishment. Of these, 63 males and 52 females, by an arrangement between the Committees of Visitors of this and of the County Lunatic Asylum at Whittiugham, near Preston, now in course of erection, are on leave of absence at the latter Asylum, which, although incomplete, can afford accommodation for lunatics of the most orderly class. The patients on leave of absence were selected from those requiring the least care, and are employed—• the men to work in the grounds, the women to wash in the laundry, cook, and perform the usual domestic work required at an Asylum. They have derived benefit from the change, and their places at Prestwich were immediately supplied from Workhouses and from Ilaydock Lodge, and by patients chargeable to the County, and to Unions within the County, but confined in Asylums outside the County, by which a considerable saving to the ratepayers, in the charge for maintenance, has been effected. Some vacancies have been retained for new and urgent cases. On every available opportunity, patients belonging to other Counties have been sent to the Asylums of their respective places of settlement.