The report of the committee of visitors & superintendent of the Cheshire Lunatic Asylum : made to the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, holden at Nether Knutsford, in and for the county of Chester, on Monday, the 5th April, 1858.

  • Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1858
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Credit: The report of the committee of visitors & superintendent of the Cheshire Lunatic Asylum : made to the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, holden at Nether Knutsford, in and for the county of Chester, on Monday, the 5th April, 1858. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    E E P 0 E T OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT, FOR THE YEAR 1857. Gentlemen, I beg to lay before you the Fourth Annual Medical Report of the inmates of this Asylum, accompanied with the usual Statistical Tables. On January 1st, 1857, there were 286 patients in the Asylum. The number admitted during the year was 103 ; there were discharged, 47 as recovered, 5 as relieved, and 5 as not improved ; and the deaths amounted to 35. The number