The fourteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1859 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1859
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Credit: The fourteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1859 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The expenses incurred in the 76 cases, and for corre¬ spondence, attendances and enquiries in three other cases, with the view of protecting the interests of the County, including also payments to Country Agents and Witnesses, amount to the sum of £175 5s. Messrs. Allen have to observe that, if the making of orders on the County Treasurer in the ten cases had not been successfully opposed, the County Rate would not only have been charged with the expense of the maintenance of those Lunatics incurred within the previous twelve months, but would also, according to the present weekly rates charged at the County and private Asylums, have been liable to the payment of about £300 a-year for the patients’ future main¬ tenance, so long as they remained in the County or private Asylums; and that the expense of maintaining the two Criminal Lunatics whose settlements have been discovered and adjudged, would have amounted to about £50 a-year. All of which Messrs. Allen submit, kc. C. and J. ALLEN and SON. 19th January, 1859.