The thirty-eighth annual report of the visitors of the Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum : for the year ending December 31, 1856.

  • Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum.
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[1857]
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Credit: The thirty-eighth annual report of the visitors of the Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum : for the year ending December 31, 1856. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OE THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM AT STAFFORD, PRESENTED TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS, HELD JANUARY 5th, 1857. Pursuant to the Act for the Regulation of Lunatic Asylums, the Visiting Magistrates present their Annual Report to the Court. During the preceding twelve months the Committee of Justices have regularly visited the Establishment, at intervals varying from fourteen to twenty-one days, and after careful and minute inspection, have been enabled each time to express their approbation of the management. The same system of total absence of all coercion, restraint, or punishment, still continues to be carried out, and farther experience of this mode of treatment only still more confirms your Committee in their opinion of its humane and beneficial effect on the i patients; whilst the increased number of recoveries, compared with former years, clearly shows how beneficial, it has proved as a remedial mode of treatment. The Asylum still continues to preserve the generally i healthy character which it has so long borne, though dysentery has been rather prevalent during the last few weeks, and has, in some few cases of broken down constitutions, proved fatal. It has been ascertained that several patients have [ been admitted who were, strictly speaking, not paupers,