The fifteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1866 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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[1866]
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Credit: The fifteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1866 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO HER MAJESTY’S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE for the County of Middlesex. The REPORT of the CLERK of the PEACE as to Lunatics Settlements. The Clerk of the Peace begs to report to the Court that since the County Day or the last July Quarter Session he has received 47 notices, g’ veil under the Stat. 16 & 17 Vic., c. 97, and has attended on the several Parish Officers, Metropolitan Police Courts, and special Sessions, and made enquiries relative to the same. In 6 of those cases the application for Orders were abandoned by the Parish Officers in consequence of information obtained. In 33 cases the Lunatics were adjudged chargeable to the County; 17 of them being natives of. Ireland or Scotland or Foreigners. The remaining 8 cases are standing over for further enquiries, to be made by the Parish Officers in consequence of information obtained by the Clerk of the Peace. Which the Clerk of the Peace submits, &c. RICHARD NICHOLSON. January 18 th 1866.