The twentieth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1865 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The twentieth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1865 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    present Female Patients, the number must on no account be increased. The mortality during the period since the last visit appears to have been, on the Male side, at the rate of about 16, and on the Female about 9 per cent, per annum, on the average numbers resident. The Patients last registered as under medical treatment were 58 in the Male Division, and 95 in the Female. The Patients placed in seclusion since the last visit have been 53 in the Male Division, and 172 in the Female, the former altogether on 150, and the latter on 1044 occasions. Latterly seclusion on the female side has been much less frequent than before. The Patients attendiug Divine Service in the Chapel on the Sunday before our visit, were—in the Morning 206 men and 305 women, and the afternoon 196 men and 295 women. We avail ourselves of this occasion again to urge upon the Visitors the expediency of erecting a detached Chapel of adequate dimensions, and converting the present Chapel into a Recreation Hall, which is much needed, the present Recreation Hall being- of very insufficient size. We were furnished with the following statement of the numbers of Patients usefully employed. Males. Land, Farm & Grounds 96 Trades . . .88 Others . . .80 Total . 264 Females NeedleWork & Knitting 234 Laundry Department . 120 Others. . . — Total . 354