Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Easter quarter sessions for the respective Ridings, 1849 : together with the superintendent's second annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1849 : and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1848 / [North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum].

  • North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Easter quarter sessions for the respective Ridings, 1849 : together with the superintendent's second annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1849 : and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1848 / [North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    North and East Ridings Asylum, Clifton, York, December 23, 1848. To Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the res¬ pective Ridings, in General Quarter Sessions assembled. The Committee of Visitors of the Comity Lunatic Asylum, in presenting their Report of the transactions of the Institution during the last nine months, beg, in the first place, to draw the attention of the Court to the steady and satisfactory advancement of the Asylum. There were in the Asylum on the 30th of March last, 74 males, 57 females. Admitted since . 30 ,, 22 ,, 104 79—together, 183 who have been under treatment, of whom there have been finally Discharged . . 12 males, 8 females. Out on trial . 4 ,, 1 Improved . . 2 ,, 0 Died . 9 ,, 1 99 9? 99 Remaining under treatment 77 69—total, 146. The Committee trust that the objects for which the Asylum was erected have been thus far most fully accomplished ; they refer especially to the cures, which amount to forty-eight per cent, on the admissions since the Annual Report was published, making a total of 44 final discharges since the Asylum was opened in April last year, provided five now on leave receive, as is anticipated, the requisite certificates. It would appear from answers to the ques¬ tions in Orders of Admission, that a very large proportion of the patients hitherto received are cases of old standing insanity; amongst them are several idiots of a most pitiable description, and others who are afflicted with fits of epilepsy. These persons, they understand, cannot be expected to derive much curative benefit; although in all of them very material improvements have been effected in their condition and habits. The Committee, in remark¬ ing upon the unfortunate character of such cases, beg leave to point out the undesirableness of increasing the number of this lamentable class in the Asylum. The male side has been for a long time quite