Fifteenth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the 1st of January, to the end of the year 1862.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Fifteenth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the 1st of January, to the end of the year 1862. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A NNUA L RE POR T OF THE VISITORS OF THE Somerset dmty ITtmalit : PRESENTED TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS, Held at TAUNTON, in the said County, on TUESDAY, the 6th day oe JANUARY, 1863. The Asylum has been in a satisfactory condition during the last year, the recoveries have been more than in any previous year, and one-third above the average; and the patients have been generally healthy, the deaths have been below the average, which is the more satisfactory, because, as the numbers increase, it is to be expected that the number of chronics, of patients in feeble health, and of deaths, should increase even more rapidly. The number of patients on the 1st of January, 1862, was 465 : there are now 482. At the annual visit of the Commissioners in Lunacy, in June, some remarks were left by them in the Visitors’ Book, which the Committee thought unjust to Dr. Boyd and themselves, and they felt it necessary B