Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1855 together with the superintendent's eighth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1855 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1854 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.

  • North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1855 together with the superintendent's eighth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1855 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1854 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Dietary Scale. Days. Breakfast, Monday .. Gruel, thicken¬ ed with oatmeal, 1^ pint, with 6 oz. of bread. Tuesday. Friday . > Sunday . J Wednesday .... | Saturday. > Thnrsdav . 1 Dinner. Pease soup, pint, with 6 oz. of bread Cooked meat, free from bone, 5 oz.; bread, 6 oz. for males and 4 oz. for females, with vegetables and ■§ pint of beer. Meat pie, with vegetables, and pint of beer. Irish stew, 1^ pint, with 4 oz. of bread. Supper.* 6 oz.of bread, with butter and tea. Great additions are made to the above table, as for example, those patients who do not eat pease soup and irish stew, on Mondays and Thursdays, are allowed rice and suet pud¬ ding, and all epileptic, palsied, aged and weakly patients are allowed extra diet, consisting, according to circumstances, of beef-tea, mutton broth, egg pudding, bread, rice, tapioca, sago, and arrow root puddings, mutton chops, mince meat, porter, port and sherry wine. The pumping of water is all done by the idiotic classes, who are allowed a pint of good meat broth, with bread and vegetables every morning at half-past ten o’clock, together with the firemen, bakers, house cleaners, &c. * On Thursdays, pint of beer, with two ounces of cheese, are substituted for the male patients, in lieu of tea and butter. Indulgences consist of tobacco, beer, tea, &c., and may be said to be enjoyed by nearly all the patients; since but few are, at any time, unemployed. The pease soup and Irish stew are made with legs of beef and necks of mutton, Scotch barley, vegetables, herbs, &c. North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Goods in Store, 1 st January, 1855. £ s. d. Estimated value of male and female apparel and household linen ........ 386 5 10^ Ditto goods in piece.-... 37 12 52 Ditto provisions.. . 133 *9 4^ Ditto necessaries .... 118 10 1 Total.£696 7 H John Roberts, Steward. HENRY SOTHERAN, BOOKSELLER, YORK.