Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1860 together with the superintendent's thirteenth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1860 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1859 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.

  • North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1860
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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 Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1860 together with the superintendent's thirteenth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1860 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1859 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    North and East Hidings' Lunatic Asylum, Clifton, York, 2Qth December, 1859. To Her Majesty’s Justices oe the Peace for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire in General Quarter Sessions Assembled. THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. The Committee of Visitors have to report that the Commissioners in Lunacy have lately visited the Institution, and have made various suggestions, some of which, if adopted, will involve a further outlay of money, and all of them require greater consider¬ ation than the Committee have as yet been able to devote to them. The Government Rules have hitherto been our guide, but in compliance with the Commissioners’ desire, we are drawing up a special set of Rules dictated by and in conformity with those practices and that course of action which experience has proved to be so highly beneficial in the daily working of the Institution. The health of the patients generally has been good. The late inclement weather has severely tried some of the aged, feeble, and paralytic. The weekly charge continues to be for the North and East Ridings’ patients, seven shillings; for out-County pauper patients, eleven shillings and eightpence ; and for private patients, twelve shillings and threepence, unless from places out of the Ridings, in which case the charge is fourteen shillings. Many improvements have been made in the course of the year to the buildings; and the overplus from out-Coujity and private patients has been applied to these improvements and additions.