Report of the Visiting Committee of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, together with the reports of the medical superintendent and chaplain, and the abstract of account / Bristol Lunatic Asylum.

  • Bristol Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Report of the Visiting Committee of the Lunatic Asylum for the City and County of Bristol, together with the reports of the medical superintendent and chaplain, and the abstract of account / Bristol Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gress and the administrative department carried on under such great disadvantages, no accident has occurred to any of the patients in consequence, and the work of the Asylum has been efficiently maintained. Two of the Commissioners in Lunacy visited the Asylum on the 9th of February last. A copy of their Report is appended hereto. In accordance with the recommendation of the Com¬ missioners, your Committee have appointed a Second Assistant Medical Officer; viz., Dr. Frederick Edward Rainsford, who entered upon his duties on the 27th of July last. The Annual Reports of the Medical Superintendent and the Chaplain and the Statement of Accounts are also appended. Your Committee have much pleasure in testifying to the manner in which the Officers and Attendants have performed their duties during the past year, and to the support the Com¬ mittee have at all times received from them. CHARLES WATHEN, Chairman. The Council House, Bristol, 2nd January, 1892.