Sixth annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ending 31st December, 1876 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.

Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.

Date:: [1877?]

Credit: Sixth annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ending 31st December, 1876 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Improvements ” and of the “ Repairs ” Accounts, the sum of 217/. 17s. 6d. has been earned as lodging money. The Committee are glad to report very favourably of the management of the Asylum, of the conduct of the Officers and Servants, and of the care of the Patients. It is worth noting that in this year, for the first time since the opening of the Asylum, it has been found necessary to use mechanical restraint, and that only for the proper surgical treatment of two cases of fracture in epileptics. Dr. C. W. Harvey was appointed to the office of Assistant Medical Officer, which was vacant at the date of the Report for 1875. The Rev. C. F. Thorndike having resigned the Chaplaincy, the Rev. W. Kirkby, the Vicar of Cholsey, has succeeded him, and holds office on similar con¬ ditions. John Simonds, Esq., of Reading, has been elected to be Treasurer of the Asylum, in the place of his late father. Two of the Commissioners in Lunacy visited the Asylum in May last. The Patients now in the asylum \i.e15th Dec., 1876] are :—• Patients of Unions in Berkshire . M. 98 F. 106 total. 204 }f )> the County of Berks . 2 0 2 » V Parishes in the Borough of Beading 30 41 71 » )) Parishes in the Borough of Newbury 14 12 26 other Counties 0 3 3 144 162 306 Total • • « • 0 •$