The sixteenth annual report of the state of the United Lunatic Asylum for the county & borough of Nottingham, and the sixty-first of the original institution, formerly the General Lunatic Asylum, 1871.

  • Nottingham United Lunatic Asylum at Snenton.
Date:
1872
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Credit: The sixteenth annual report of the state of the United Lunatic Asylum for the county & borough of Nottingham, and the sixty-first of the original institution, formerly the General Lunatic Asylum, 1871. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Five patients have been inmates upwards of 30 years, and one upwards of 43 years. At the Census taken on April 3rd, there were no fewer than 77 patients who were upwards of 60 years of age. Three inquests were held during the year : one upon a man who died of rupture of a bloodvessel of the lungs ; a second upon a man who committed suicide by hanging himself from an iron bedstead ; and the third upon a man who died from injuries accidentally received, complicated with inflammation of the brain and gangre¬ nous erysipelas. That Asylums should ever be entirely free from accidents is more than can be hoped for, when it is considered that in establishments of this magnitude there are always to be found some lunatics under care whom it is dangerous to approach when suffering from paroxysms of frenzy. Of patients deemed curable, there are 10 of each sex in the Asylum. The staff who assist me in the management consists at the present time of five officers, without whose cordial co-operation, the duties would have been far more onerous. There are also forty-one servants under supervision. Their conduct in general has been such as to deserve the continued approbation of the committee of visitors. All which is respectfully submitted. W. SShiTlimore Stiff, Jl.iti SUPERINTENDENT. Snenton, January 18th, 1872.