The second annual report of the Committee of Visitors, of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1853 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The second annual report of the Committee of Visitors, of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1853 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MEDICAL REPORT OF THE FEMALE DEPARTMENT. 1852. To the COMMITTEE of VISITORS of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, COLNEY HATCH. My Lord and Gentlemen, In laying before you the Medical Report, with the accompanying Tables, for the year 1852, of this important Institution, it is no small matter of thankfulness and satis¬ faction to be able to state that success has hitherto attended the means and discipline exercised therein; and that a growing confidence is rising in the public mind, in the result of those measures which I have had the honour of carrying into effect, under your well organised appointments. It will be seen by the Tables appended to the Report, that the number of Patients on the books, on January the' 1st, 1852, was 626 ; that 270 have been admitted during the year ending December 31st, 1852 ; 69 have been discharged upon recovery; 11 relieved; 17 removed; 70 have died, leaving 729 under immediate care; the daily average number has been 712. * It is important to draw attention to the fact that amongst the 270 a.dmittcd, although the bodily health and condition Numerical Statement. Of the Ad¬ missions.