Fourth annual report of the state of the United Lunatic Asylum for the county and borough of Nottingham; and the forty-ninth of the original institution : year 1859.

  • Nottingham United Lunatic Asylum at Snenton.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Fourth annual report of the state of the United Lunatic Asylum for the county and borough of Nottingham; and the forty-ninth of the original institution : year 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. -- Nottingham County Lunatic Asylum, June 10th 1859. Since tlie last visit on tlie 3rd of Mav 1858, 124 Patients have been admitted, 113 have been discharged, and 26 have died; 5 from Disease of the Chest and Lungs, 3 from Paralysis, 2 from Apoplexy, 3 from Epilepsy, and the rest from various other causes. There are now 245 Patients in the Asylum, viz., 16 of each sex private Patients, and 95 males and 118 females Paupers. Fourteen Patients are under medical treatment. On reference to the Register, we find that since the last visit (a period of 57 weeks) 51 Patients have been secluded, amounting altogether to 179 instances. There has been no case of restraint. Two Patients (one of each sex) are absent on trial. We learn on inquiry that more than half the Patients attend divine service, which is regularly performed; and that 126 Patients (58 men and 68 women) were employed yesterday, and that this is about the average number of those occupied. We have to-day seen the Patients, and have inspected their rooms and galleries. The Patients were generally quiet at the time of our visit, and the rooms, galleries, and bedding clean. There is some confusion at present in the Asylum, in consequence of the new wing being still in progress, and of