Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OE VISITORS OF THE SUI1REY LUNATIC ASYLUM, EOR THE YEAR 1856, PRESENTED AT THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS, HELD AT IlEIGATE, on the 7th Day of APRIL, 1857- The Committee of Visitors, in presenting their Fifteenth Annual Report, have again to express their regret that the continued high price of provisions and other articles of general con¬ sumption at the Asylum, prevents any reduction being made in the weekly charge for the main¬ tenance of patients. The number of patients in the Asylum on the 1st of January, 1856, was 937 ; and, during the year, 243 patients were admitted, making a total of 1180; of whom, 61 males and 37 females were discharged cured; ] 9 males and