First annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: First annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 from Bow Asylum, Middlesex, 1 from Belle Vue Asylum, Devizes, 1 from Sandfield, 1 from Lancaster County Asylum, 2 Criminal Lunatics from Droitwich, and other Patients from various sources, upwards of 150 inmates—69 males and 83 females. The whole were conveyed by omnibus, with few exceptions, without the slightest accident of any kind. No. I. of the Statistical Tables, appended to this Report, illustrates the sources from whence all the Patients have been received since the opening of the Asylum to the 31st of December, 1853. The Patients, on their first entrance into the Asylum, gene¬ rally appeared highly delighted with their new abode; admired the surrounding scenery from the windows and airing-grounds, examined minutely into every part of their wards, and made particular enquiries as to the extent of accommodation the house would afford. Those who had been confined many years in the Asylums of the neighbouring counties were especially gratified at being once more brought hack to Worcestershire, saying that it “ cheered their hearts to return to their own county,” and strengthened and revived their almost abandoned but long cherished hope of being again restored to their homes, friends, and liberty. Table II. shows the general result of the admissions, removals, and deaths, since the opening of the Asylum, extending over a period of one year, four months, and twenty- one days. During the first four months and twenty-one days, there were admitted 192 Patients—91 males and 101 females. Ten have been discharged, 7 as cured; 2 much improved at the request of their relatives; 1 escaped; and 4 have died. Two of those removed cured were admitted from Asylums after a period of three months’ and 1 of two years’ residence: they were in a state of convalescence on their admission, and, on that being confirmed, were discharged. Two of the remaining four were admitted from Worcester Infirmary, the other 2 from