Seventh annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ending 31st December, 1877 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.

  • Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1878?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Seventh annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ending 31st December, 1877 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tlie number of patients on the register at the begin¬ ning of the year. But although there has been a reduc¬ tion of six in the number resident at the end of the year, there has been an increase of 14 in the number charge¬ able, on account of the removal of 20 patients to the Sussex Asylum, who will require to be maintained there or elsewhere until the contemplated extension of the asylum is completed and fit for their reception. The admissions of the year which, inclusive of 7 re¬ admissions, amount to 89 in number, are fewer by 10 than the number admitted during 1876, and both sexes are nearly equally represented. Three of those admitted were transferred from other asylums through becoming chargeable to Unions in the county of Berks, and 26, or 29 per cent, of the admissions, had been inmates of a Workhouse prior to admission. Of the latter, 9 had been detained in the Workhouse not exceeding one week, 4 for two weeks, 3 for one month, 1 for two months, 1 for seven months, 1 for nine months, 2 for two years, 1 for eight years, 2 for fourteen years, and 2 during an indefinite number of years. This proportion of workhouse cases admitted, although large, is 10 per cent, under that of the previous year, and, it is to be hoped, will continue to diminish in the future, as on account of the generally incurable nature of such cases, no marked diminution of the annual increase in the number resident at the end of each year is anticipated as long as the asylum continues to receive so many patients of this class. For example, four-fifths of those alluded to as admitted from workhouses during the past year are hopelessly incurable, and, it is probable, will continue inmates of the asylum during the remainder of their existence. In addition to three criminal lunatics admitted by order of a warrant from the Secretary of State, eight patients