The report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 29th of December 1859 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1860
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 29th of December 1859 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    7/46 (page 9)
    REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. Gentlemen, County of Lancaster Asylum, Prestwick, February 17th, 1860. I have the honour to lay before you the usual statistical report of the state of the Asylum during the past year. On the 1st of January, 1859, there remained in the Asylum 492 patients, viz :—245 men, and 247 women. The number admitted during the year amounted to 170, (75 men and 95 women,) making a total of 662 under care and treatment during that period. 86 have been discharged, recovered; 7 ditto relieved; 17 ditto not improved ; 1 escaped; and 49 have died; leaving 502 in the establishment on the 1st January, 1860.