Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session holden at Preston, December 28th, 1871 with an account of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session holden at Preston, December 28th, 1871 with an account of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The recoveries have been in the proportion of 56 per cent, to the admissions ; the deaths 6 per cent, upon the total number under treatment. The general health of the patients has been good throughout the year. Although, as usual, we have admitted large numbers of violent, excit|able, and suicidal patients, I am glad to say that no casualty of any moment has occurred within the precincts of the Asylum to give your officers any cause of anxiety, and I am equally glad to report that nothing has happened during the year to interfere with the harmony which has at all times prevailed in matters connected with the management of this Asylum. There has been no interruption to the usual weekly recreations, which have been provided with the customary variations, neither have the industrial pursuits of the patients been neglected. In addition to their regular occupation as agriculturalists, mechanics, &c,, several have been employed under the direction of a skilled workman,—also a patient,—in thoroughly painting and decorating the Church, the Recreation Hall, and the detached Hospital, all of which has been judiciously and tastefully executed. Since its completion 360 patients—180 of each sex—-have taken their meals daily in the Hall. Three days in the week a portion of the band plays during the