Thirtieth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1867.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum.
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[1868]
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Credit: Thirtieth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1867. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT. The Superintendent is thankful to be able in this his 30th Report, to repeat what was stated last year for the first time since the opening of the Asylum, “that there is no demand for additional room:” and that this year’s report tends to confirm the opinion previously expressed, that unless any very unexpected pressure should take place, there need be no urgent demand for space for some years to come. The numbers admitted in the year are 54 Males, and 67 Females. Total, 121. Admissions, 18 above last year’s. Discharges . 9 less. Deaths . 3 less. In the House this day, 163 Males, 215 Females: Total 378. The three criminal lunatics who had for years been re¬ turned as such, but whose sentences on imprisonment had expired long since, have according to the Act of Parliament passed in the last Session, 30th Yict. c. 1.2, become classed as ordinary pauper lunatics, the only nominal class in the Asylum. This Act has simplified the treatment and condi¬ tion of these patients very much. It is not always easy to understand the complicity of legal enactments; and the more thanks are due for the plainness and brevity of this. The law considerately also provides for the admission of patients to other asylums than those of the County to which they belong: and advantage may be taken of this latitude in cases where the relatives of a patient may live nearer to the asylum to which a beneficial transfer may be made. An application for such a transfer was made from the Kent Asylum, but it could not be entertained. There is no room for out-County patients.