Twenty-third report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1874.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1875?]
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Credit: Twenty-third report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. Derby County Asylum, 19th June, 1874. This Asylum has been inspected throughout by us to-day. All the Patients whom we have seen are 173 Males and 195 Females. There are on the Books other four Men and one Woman, who are absent on leave ; so that the total number is 378. The vacant beds in the building, inclusive of those in the new Female Ward, No. 8 (which Ward will be first occupied on the 30th of this month), are 25 on the Male and 39 on the Female side. In Ward No. 8, above referred to, will be placed 20 Women of the chronic and quiet class, now at Macclesfield Asylum, and others from time to time will be added to them. The Patients chargeable to Derbyshire Unions, exclusively of the Borough of Derby, are 351, maintained at a weekly charge of 10s. 6d. Three Derby Borough Paupers are received for 13s. 6d. per head each week; two private Patients at 16s., and 17 out- county Paupers charged 14s. weekly. The changes recorded since the 28th May, 1873, when our colleagues were last here, are the following:— Admitted Died. Males. Females. Total. . 65 .... . 64 . ... 129 .32 .... ..... 40 . 72 d 26 -... . 34 . 60 . 26 .... . 19 . ... 45