Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, 31st December, 1868 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1869
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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, 31st December, 1868 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The annual report for last year referred to a contemplated arrangement with the Guardians of the Bolton Union, for the reception of a limited number of chronic and harmless patients, from this Asylum into the workhouse of that Union, so as to afford accommodation in the Asylum for more hopeful and pressing cases. This plan, which, in the first instance, received the sanction of the Commissioners in Lunacy, could not be carried out in - consequence of a legal difficulty which presented itself at that time, but has since been removed by the Poor Law Amendment Act of last Session. On the passing of that Act, your Committee, anxious to carry out the proposed arrangement,—having been compelled within the space of six months, in consequence of want of accommodation, to refuse admission into the Asylum of upwards of 100 patients—at once renewed negotiations with the Guardians of the Bolton Union, who, eventually, at a Board meeting held on the 9th December, instant, unanimously passed a resolution of which the following is a copy:— “ That however desirous the Guardians may have been to . assist the Committee of Visitors of the Prestwich Lunatic Asylum, by endeavouring to render available the spare room at their disposal in the Workhouse Lunatic Wards for the reception of a limited number of Chronic Lunatics from that Asylum, with a view of making immediate room therein for hopeful and urgent cases, considering the impediments and obstacles raised by the Commissioners in Lunacy, with the uncertainty what their further requirements may be, they are not disposed to proceed further with a project, which, in a