Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1851 and special, supplemental reports together with the superintendent's fourth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1851 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1850 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.

  • North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1851 and special, supplemental reports together with the superintendent's fourth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1851 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1850 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    R E P 0 R T . North and East Ridings’ of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum, Clifton, York, 23rd December, 1850. * FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. To Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the res¬ pective Ridings of Yorkshire, in General Quarter Sessions assembled. During the present year hut few admissions of Patients have taken place, in consequence of the erection of the new wings having rendered it necessary to remove the roofing from a portion of the existing Asylum, and also on account of the large proportion of old standing cases of insanity remaining at the date of the last Annual Report. The Statistics of the year will be included in the Medical Superintendent’s Report, to be presented at the Easter Sessions in 1851, when the Finance Accounts will also be ready. The number of Patients in the Asylum is 153, being 77 males and 76 females. Applications for the reception of Patients continue to be made, so that the number on the Register has increased to 63. From the remarks accompanying many of these requests, the Committee of Visitors are assured of the estimation in which the Asylum is held by the Ridings. They trust the time is near at hand, when all these poor Lunatics may be placed under their care, and which wras hoped would have been partially the case ere now. The state of the w'eather, as might be expected at this season of the year, has impeded the progress of the works, which, however, are rapidly advancing towards completion on the male side; and it is hoped that by the commencement of the year, this wing wall be opened for the reception of Patients. A good deal remains to be done in the opposite side, which will not be fit for habitation for a few weeks to come. The Committee have much satisfaction in re¬ porting that they have every expectation that the sum ot U5000 granted by the Ridings a year ago, for the purpose of enlarging the Asylum to contain as then stated 100 more patients, will not be exceeded, notwithstanding that the accommodation has been since augmented for the reception of an additional number.