Eighth annual report of the Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum : 1869.

  • Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Eighth annual report of the Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum : 1869. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EPIPHANY SESSIONS, 1869-70. THE 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 :—For Cumberland, 153 males, 116 females; for Westmorland, 39 males, 38 females; for other counties and private patients, 7 males and 20 females; making a total of 373 patients now in the Asylum. It is satisfactory to know that the number of patients chargeable to the two counties has only increased four during the past year. The weekly cost of maintenance is eight shillings and ninepence per head for pauper patients, and fourteen shillings for those of other counties and for private 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 satisfactory, the whole of the lunatics chargeable to the two counties for whom it was necessary to provide accommodation are now at Garlands, and after reserving sufficient room for such future admissions as may be required, your Committee have been able to receive pauper patients belonging to the county of Lancaster, and