The eighteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1869 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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1869
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Credit: The eighteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1869 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. Copy of Entry m ule by the Commissioners in Lunacy on their Visit to the Asylum. Colney Hatch Asylum, 24th October, 1868. In the course of the last Four days we inspected the Asylum in its several Departments, and saw all the Patients except¬ ing two Men and five Women absent on trial. We have to report the following as the changes in the Patients since the visit of our Colleagues, 8th November last, and their present numbers:— Male. Female. Total. Admitted 187 158 345 Discharged 101 59 160 ,, of whom recovered.. 65 41 106 Died .. .. .. .. 87 74 161 Present numbers on books 824 1,239 2,063 Of the Patients discharged not recovered, 37 (26 Men and 11 Women) were removed as harmless chronic cases in exchange for recent and acute cases, to their respective workhouses, the majority to St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, and Hackney, and the remainder to the workhouse of St. Margaret ami St. John, Westminster. With two exceptions the deaths were from ordinary causes. The exceptions were (1), a Male Patient who when out walking with five others under the charge of an