The twentieth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1865 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The twentieth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1865 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Messrs. Allen likewise enquired into the case of one other Criminal Lunatic, in which they discovered a settlement, and were prepared to get it adjudicated; but, at the urgent request of the Lunatic’s brother, who was a wealthy man, arrangements were made by him for payment of the Lunatic’s maintenance in the Asylum. They have also enquired into the cases of two other Criminal Lunatics, in which settlements have not been discovered. They have also received and paid to the County Treasurer the sum of £19 10s. towards the maintenance of a Criminal Lunatic, who was sent to the Asylum at Han well, in 1862. Messrs. Allen have attended at the Metropolitan Police Courts, at Petty Sessions, and on different Parish Officers, and made enquiries relative to 81 other Lunatics, in consequence of notices given (under the 98th Section of the 16th and 17th Vic., cap. 97) to the Clerk of the Peace by Parish Officers of then’ intention to apply for orders, charging the County with the Lunatics’ maintenance. In 20 of those cases the applications were abandoned by the Parish Officers, or orders upon the County Treasurer were refused to be made by the Magistrates, in consequence of information obtained by Messrs. Allen. In the remaining 61 cases the Paupers were deemed chargeable to the County, 44 of them being natives of Ireland or Scotland, or being foreigners. Messrs. Allen have likewise received and paid to the County Treasurer the pensions of 4 Pauper Lunatics, who have been several years chargeable to the County, amounting to the further sum of £45 6s. 4d.