Report of the medical superintendent with the accounts of the treasurer of the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, for the year, 1865.

  • Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (Norfolk, England)
Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: Report of the medical superintendent with the accounts of the treasurer of the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, for the year, 1865. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NORFOLK LUNATIC ASYLUM. §pkcal ^ufmntenhnf s gjwmml §qoxi FOR THE YEAR 1865. TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. I beg to lay before the Committee my Fifth Annual Report, with the usual statistical tables; and in doing so, I am conscious of a certain staleness and tautology about them, which I regret but cannot avoid ; the facts and the figures are almost identical from year to year, and the commentary upon them must therefore necessarily be in effect—if not in words—one and the same. On the 1st of January, 1866, there were in the Asylum 171 men and 211 women—total 382. On comparing these numbers with those of the corresponding date of the preceding year, viz. 174 men and 209 women, they show a decrease of 3 on the male, an increase of 2 on the female side, and one less on the total: the average number of patients in the Asylum on every day of the year was 388.