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.
Date:
[1865]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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 OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE COUNTY ASYLUM FOR LUNATICS, STAFFORD, PRESENTED TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS, JANUARY 2nd, 1865. Since the 1st of January, 1864, 225 lunatics have been admitted into your Asylum, of which number 112 were males and 113 females. 100 have been discharged recovered, and 76 have died. Of the 613 patients now on the books, 81 have been boarded and lodged out at other Establishments,—• leaving an average of 513 in the County Asylum during the year. Within the last three months, due notice has been t received for the removal of the female lunatics now in tl Chester Asylum,—of which number 10 have been already re-admitted into your Asylum. Notice for the removal of the remaining lunatics, 11 both male and female, now boarded out, has been given by us; in anticipation of the accommodation to be ( provided at Burntwood for this County. Thirty have been already transferred to that build¬ ing, and although the female department of your