Fifth annual report of the Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum : 1866.

  • Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Fifth annual report of the Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum : 1866. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHRISTMAS SESSIONS, 1866-7. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE UNITED COUNTIES OF CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND. Your Committee have to report that the number of patients at present in the Asylum is as follows, viz.:—For Cumberland, 123 Males, 93 Females; for Westmorland, 36 Males, 26 Females; total, 278. The present weekly cost of maintenance is 8s. 9d. per head, being a reduction of Is. 9d. since the previous quarter; and your Committee fully expect that a further reduction may still be effected, without in any way endangering the health of the patients. The General Committee have met at the Asylum once a month, and the House Committee once a fortnight, during the past year. By the 62nd section of the Lunacy Act, your Committee are required at this Sessions to lay before the Justices of the County “ a Report in writing of the state and condition of the Asylum, and as to its sufficiency for the proper accommodation of the number of Lunatics for whom it may be necessary to provide accommodation, and as to the management of such Asylum and the conduct of the officers and servants thereof and the care of the patients therein, a copy of which Report is to be transmitted to the Commissioners in Lunacy.” In accordance with this requirement, your Committee have now to report that the state and condition of the Asylum is most satis¬ factory ; that the new wrest wing having been completed, the whole of the Lunatics chargeable to the two Counties, for whom it was necessary to provide accommodation, and who were in a fit state to be removed, have been now brought to Garlands, and there is still room to receive 46 additional patients there.