The eleventh annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1859.

  • North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1860
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Credit: The eleventh annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    R E P O R T OF THE COMMITTEE OF VIST T O R S. The Committee, in presenting the Eleventh Annual Report, have again the satisfaction of bearing their strong testimony to the general efficiency of the Institution. In obedience to the 16 and 17 Viet. cap. 97, sec 62, they have to state, that the house is in good repair, eminently clean, and service¬ ably furnished. The number of patients at this present under treatment amounts to. viz : Males.. Private, . Paupers, . . 19 . 97 Females.- Private, Paupers, . 12 101 116 113 Total.. 229 The Committee have at length yielded to the reiterated remon¬ strances, of the Commissioners in Lunacy, in regard to the Appoint¬ ment of a “ Night Watch.” At a quarterly meeting of the Committee of Visitors, held October 13th, 1859,—It was resolved, “ That, in ac¬ cordance with the recommendation of the Commissioners in Lunacy, the system of Night Watching be adopted in this Asylum, and that “ the Visiting Physician, and Medical Superintendent be authorised to “take the necessary measures for instituting the same forthwith.” Up to that date the Committee, for weighty reasons, had stedfastly declined to accede to the representations of the Commissioners. Should the Committee’s objections prove, after a fair trial, to have been well founded, there can be no difficulty in returning to the former state of things, and thus relieving the establishment from the in¬ creased expenditure, which -the introduction of such a system must inevitably entail.