The forty-sixth annual report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1864.

  • Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum.
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[1865]
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Credit: The forty-sixth annual report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1864. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OE THE SUPERINTENDENT. My Lords and Gentlemen, From careful calculation of the numbers admitted Increase, into the Asylum during the last ten years, there appears to be an average increase of 28 lunatics per annum, of which number 16 per cent, were males, and 12 females. Out of the 618 now upon the books, 81 are Residence, boarded out at the County Asylum, Chester, and the Retreat at Haydock Lodge, whilst 30 have been sent to the auxiliary Asylum, at Burntwood, near Lichfield; leaving 502 lunatics now resident in the County Asylum at Stafford. As the building at Burntwood progresses towards completion, more lunatics will be transferred there; and by the diminution in numbers thus acquired, adequate accommodation, for those now placed out at other Asylums, will be obtained at Stafford. As due notice has been given for the removal of all the lunatics from Chester and Haydock Lodge, which notice will shortly expire, their removal back i to the Asylum at Stafford may shortly be calculated : upon; and the extra cost for the maintenance of i Staffordshire pauper lunatics in other counties will