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

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT AND MEDICAL OEEICER. To the Committee of Visitors of the Worcester County and ■» City Lunatic Asylum. My Lord and Gentlemen,—Your Superintendent has the honour of submitting the Twenty-fourth Eeport, to which is annexed the usual Statistical Tables regarding the Admissions, Discharges, and Deaths of the year. A Statement of the Accounts of the Asylum for the current year, prepared by the Clerk and duly audited, is presented herewith. At the beginning of the year 741 Patients were left under care and treatment, 849 males and 892 females. During the year 175 Patients were admitted, 90 males and 85 females. The Patients discharged numbered 84, males 41 and females 48, and the deaths were 87, males 54 and females 83. There consequently were left in the Asylum at the close of the year 745 Patients, males 344 and females 401, which is for both sexes an increase of 4 during the year. The males were 5 less and the females 9 more than at the commencement of the year. The total number of Patients under treatment during the year was 916, males 439 and females 477. The average number of resident Patients throughout the year was 739, males 351 and females 388. This is an advance of 11, males 4 and females 7, on the same return for the preceding year. Since the opening of the Asylum