Twenty-first annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Twenty-first annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ment; one-half of tlieir patients have been removed, and the remainder will he shortly. The only patients then remaining under contract will he 15 males from Durham. The rate of maintenance was raised from 8s. 9d. to 9s. 6d. per head per week from the 1st May last, owing to the high price of meat, coals, and almost every other article of general consumption. The Committee have held twelve ordinary and four spe¬ cial meetings, and the House Committee six ordinary and four special meetings, during the year. At the last visit of the House Committee in 1872, and at the last visit of the present year, the numbers stood under Males. Females. Nov. 1872. County Patients . . 276 329 Private Patients ., ....... 8 13 Contract Patients 20 299 362 Nov. 1873. County Patients . . 292 338 Private Patients. ....... 5 18 Contract Patients . 26 8 323 364 Bo that, excluding out-county and private patients, there was an increase during the past year of 16 males and 9 females chargeable to the Unions in the county and city of Worcester. The profit on the contract and out-county patients during the year has been £576. Is. 8d., and on the private patients £260. 18s. Id. These sums, with the balance in hand last year, have defrayed the entire cost of repairs for the year, leaving a balance of £78. 12s. 8d.