Fourth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the joint lunatic asylum for the counties of Monmouth, Hereford, Brecon, Radnor, and city of Hereford, for the year 1856.

  • United Counties' Lunatic Asylum (Abergavenny, Wales)
Date:
1857
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Credit: Fourth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the joint lunatic asylum for the counties of Monmouth, Hereford, Brecon, Radnor, and city of Hereford, for the year 1856. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE Report of Medical Superintendent For the Year 1856. A fifth, year (this report is made for the whole year, and the Chairman’s report is up to the 26th Dec., 1856,) has now elapsed since the opening of this Asylum for the reception of the Insane Poor. At the close of 1855 there remained in the Asylum 257 patients, viz., 114 males and 143 females. During the year 1856, 116 patients have been admitted, viz., 62 males and 54 fe¬ males ; of these, one male was a criminal lunatic admitted under a warrant of the Secretary of State. The re-admissions during the year amounted to 17, viz., 7 males and 10 females. The discharges during the year haye amounted to 57. yiz., 34 males and 23 females : of these, 33 males and 20 females were recovered or re¬ lieved ; one male (the criminal lunatic) succeeded in effecting his escape, and three females were discharged on the solicitation of friends, and on
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