Report of the County Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester : 1852 / Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.

  • Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum, near Gloucester : 1852 / Gloucestershire General Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE (Gloucestershire (General Hunatie ^Sglum, FOR 1853. The Visitors have the satisfaction of presenting a very favourable Report of the condition and progress of this Asylum during the past year. The health of the inmates has been excellent; and the mor¬ tality which had increased during the two preceding years, from the admission and accumulation of aged and diseased patients, has again returned to its usual low ratio, the deaths having amounted to only 27 out of above 400 patients treated during the year, the weekly average being 317. The admissions for the year have been fewer than usual, the Visitors having been compelled to close their doors in the early part of May, from the overcrowded state of the Asylum, which they could not re-open before the latter part of November, when the New Female Pauper Wing was completed, and became ready for occupation. The admissions for the year consequently amounted to only 91—of whom 25 were deemed incurable at the time— which, together with the small number of curable cases remaining in the House on the 31st December, 1851—estimated in the Tables