The sixth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1857 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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1857
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Credit: The sixth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1857 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO HER MAJESTY’S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, in General Quarter Sessions assembled. TEE SIXTH REPORT of the COMMITTEE OF VISITORS of the COUNTY PAUPER LU¬ NATIC ASYLUM at COLNEY HATCH. So many communications have been made to the Court during the past year, relative to the Asylum at Colney Hatch, that your Committee would hardly have felt it necessary to repeat the details on the present occasion, were it not incum¬ bent upon them in presenting their annual Report, to advert to all circumstances of importance which have taken place during the current year. The gravity of several of these makes it the more needful, even at the risk of repetition, to recapitulate such as appear of more paramount interest. The Court may recollect that in January, 1856, the Committee adverted to the pressing demand, on the part of the Secretary of State as well as the Parishes in the County, for additional accommodation for the rapidly increasing numbers of pauper Lunatics in Licensed Houses and Workhouses, as well as those still retained in the custody of their friends. It was then stated, that should this number still go on increasing, it would be necessary to add to the accommodation at the two