Eighth annual reports for 1866 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1867
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Credit: Eighth annual reports for 1866 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUSSEX COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM, HAYWARDS HEATH. I I I r, I I : Ji ;; •I d i EIGHTH ANNUAL EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF YLSITORS, 1866. To Her Majesty’'s Justices of the Peace for the County of Sussex, assembled in Quarter Sessions, held at Lewes, in and for the Eastern Division of the said County, on Monday, the thirty-first day of December, 1866 ; and at Petworth, in and for the Western Division of the said County, on Thursday, the 2>rd day of January, 1867. The COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE SUSSEX COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM appointed at the Epiphany Sessions, 1866, REPORT:—■ That in the Report to the Court of Quarter Sessions, presented at Reference to last year’s Report as the Epiphany Session, 1866, after haying referred the Court to the insufficient ° accommodation to the details set out in the Medical Superintendent’s Report, ^aie patients, which stated the number of the Patients then in the Asylum to be 510, viz., 233 males and 277 females, the Committee of Visitors expressed their belief that the numbers were steadily and constantly on the increase, and that the time appeared rapidly approaching when Male Paupers must be refused admittance. It will be recollected that the accommodation for Female Patients had previously been largely increased^ The Committee of Visitors, in this belief, reported that the Asylum was not sufficient for the proper accommodation of I