Volume 1

Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / [by the Earl of Shaftesbury].

  • Great Britain. Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy
Date:
1844
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Credit: Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / [by the Earl of Shaftesbury]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eekly Charge for Paupers. Number 1st Jan., 1844, (Paupers.) Date of Superintendent. Opening. I 9 t. Peter’s Hospital, Bristol. — Brady, Surg. { ‘ot 1006.) 72 ounty of Pembroke, Haverfordwest.||G. Hampson. ee ae 17 Workhouse, Kingston-upon-Hull.* “ fi) ie MILITARY AND NAVAL HOSPITALS. Numbers Ist January, 1844. Non-Commissioned Commissioned| Or cers and Pri-| Total. Hospital. Nature. || Principal Medical Officer. Officers. Fort Clarence, Chatham||Military || Andrew Smith, M.D. 21 29 Haslar Hospital, Gosport|'Naval Sir W. Burnet, M.D., Numbers, Jan. 1, 1844. | _ Where situate. Steward, | Curable. [Eycurablen: Criminals, Bethlem Hospital . ||St. George’s Fields . *|/Mr. Nicholls . 18] 84 St. Luke’s Hospital . -//Old Street, City Road ||Mr.Stinton . 93 84 - ix Totals. . ||. 274 | 168 OTHER PUBLIC ASYLUMS. AND HOSPITALS. _ SupporRTED WHOLLY, OR IN PART, BY CHARITABLE CoNTRIBUTIONS. : : Numbers, Weekly || Jan. 1, 1844. | Name of Asylum. Superintendent. Date of || charge for opening. Paupers. Exeter . .|St. Thomas’s . . . .||Luke Ponsford, Surgeon. || 1801 Guy’s Hospl.|Lunatic Ward. 2. . - — — |} Lincoln . .jLunatic Asylum . . .||W.Graham .. . House Surgeon. Liverpool .|Lunatic Asylum . . .|iG. Tyrrell. . . . .|| 1792 Manchester .|Lunatic Asylum . . . — _- — Northampton|General Lunatic Asylum||T. O, Prichard, M.D. .|; 1838 Norwich. .|Bethel Hospital . . .J/—- King. . . . . «|| 1713 Oxford . .|Warneford Asylum . .||F. T. Wintle, M.D.. .|| 1826 (Headington) York . ./Asylum. . . . .. .J|S. Alderson, Surgeon. .|| 1777 1820 Ditto . .|Friends’ Retreat . . ./|J. Thurnam, M.D... .|| 1796 | Totals (a) Including clothes. (b) Not including clothes. * It has recently come to the knowledge of the Commissioners that this Workhouse is, by a Local Act, (5 Geo. IV. c. 13,) constituted an Asylum, subject to the County Asylum Acts. + Itis believed that some of these are maintained partly at the charge of Parishes.