The forty-third annual report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1861.

  • Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1862]
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Credit: The forty-third annual report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1861. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Within the same time 120 have been discharged, of whom 57 were males, and 63 females. Of these, 109 were discharged cured, and 11 relieved, or for removal to other Asylums ; the recoveries (on the admissions) for the year being at the rate of 48 per cent. Sixty-four lunatics have died, consisting of 38 males and 26 females. Thirteen patients of the number discharged during the year have been re-admitted. On the 25th of December, 1860, the number of insane persons resident in the Asylum was 527; whilst on the 25th December of the present year, there were 518 pauper lunatics belonging to this County remaining for treatment. In addition to the above number, there are now 47 at Hay dock Lodge in Lancashire, making a total of 565 patients belonging to this county, and paid for by this Asylum. By reference to the tables of the pauper Asylums in other counties, we find that the average of admissions in Staffordshire is nearly, if not quite, the most numerous of any county in England; and your Committee are of opinion that the nature of the employment, both in the north and south of the county, together with the density of the population, are sufficient to explain this preponderance. In most of the County Asylums the majority of the lunatics are of the female sex; but in this Asylum there is an excess of SO males, most of whom, coming from manufacturing districts, are generally more severely afflicted on admission, and less curable, than those from agricultural districts. By an act passed last Session for the irremovability of pauper lunatics, and the transfer of their chargeability