Report of the Committee of Visitors, and twenty-first annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Wiltshire County Asylum.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, and twenty-first annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    discharged relieved, and one not improved, under order of transfer to the Bristol Asylum. The less favourable results of the past year are fully ex¬ plained by the hopeless character of many of the cases brought to the Asylum, and by the larger proportion than usual of paralytic and epileptic patients. Two of the women reported relieved were discharged at the request of their friends, under the provision of the Act 16 and 17 Viet., c. 97, sec. 81; the relatives entering into an undertaking in writing that the patient shall be no longer charge¬ able to any Union, Parish or County, and shall be properly taken care of and prevented from doing injury to themselves or others. The general health has on the whole been good ; General no epidemic, excepting a few cases of dysenteric diarrhoea having prevailed. Small pox, so preva¬ lent in the Southern Counties, we are thankful to have escaped. As mentioned in the Nineteenth i Report, this disease prevailed extensively in the Devizes district two years ago. Under these cir¬ cumstances a general re-vaccination of the inmates has not been thought requisite, but would not be overlooked in case of a re-appearance of the disease in the neighbourhood. The deaths remain somewhat above the average. Deaths and : ... . rate Of They were 59 in number, giving an annual mortality Mortality, at the rate of 12.98 per cent, or rather more than one per cent, above the average of 20 years. Ten