The thirty-sixth annual report of the visitors of the Staffordshire General Lunatic Asylum : for the year ending December 31, 1854.

  • Staffordshire General Lunatic Asylum.
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[1855]
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Credit: The thirty-sixth annual report of the visitors of the Staffordshire General Lunatic Asylum : for the year ending December 31, 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. 22nd March, 1854 E, the undersigned Commissioners in Lunacy, have this day visited this Asylum. According to the last entry in the Medical Visitation Book, there appear to be 391 patients in the Asylum, of whom 30 males and 24 females are private patients; and 179 males and 158 females are paupers. Thirty-five patients are registered as being under medical treatment, and three as having been secluded during the week. Since the last visit of the Commissioners on the 2nd October, 1852, 234 patients have been admitted, 159 have been discharged, (chiefly recovered,) and 78 have died; the main causes of death have been paralysis and diseases of the brain, and a very considerable number of patients have been sent here in a state of great debility, and some in a dying condition ; few of the patients recently admitted having been received in good bodily health. There are the same amusements and religious exercises as have been noticed in preceding entries ; and the number of patients employed is greater than heretofore, many of them being employed out of doors. We have inspected the various day rooms, bed rooms? and galleries appropriated to the use of the patients, and find them, without an exception, comfortable, free from any unpleasant smell, and scrupulously clean. The Asylum is evidently under very able management. B. W. PROCTOR, 1 Commissioners J. TURNER, j in Lunacy.