Forty-seventh annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1899.

  • County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1900
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Forty-seventh annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Conditions under which Private Patients are admitted into the Asylum. I. The charge for Patients coming from, or having a settlement in, some Union in the County or City of Worcester is 15s. a week, payable quarterly in advance. II. The charge for maintenance covers all ordinary expenses, but in cases of prolonged bodily disease an additional weekly charge may be made to cover the cost of special medicines and stimulants. III. In the event of the death or discharge of any Private Patient before the maintenance moneys, paid in advance, have been exhausted by effluxion of time, the balance will be refunded to the person who made the last payment in respect of such patient. IY. The Patients may wear their own clotbes, but will have the sam accommodation in all respects as the other Patients. Y. Application for the admission of a Patient on the private class must be made in the first instance to the Medical Officer at the Asylum, who will supply all the various blank forms for the order and medical certificates. YI. The excess charge made for Private Patients beyond the ordinary pauper weekly rate of maintenance is carried to the credit of the Repairs Account.