Nineteenth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • St. John's Hospital (Stone, Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
[1872]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Nineteenth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The full number of Patients on 22nd December, 1871, the day of the last Meeting of your Committee, was as follows :— M. F. Total. County Patients. .... 134 . .. 201 . 335 Out County Patients. .... 1 . 4* . 5 Private Patients. .... 6 . 3 , . 9 Gross Total . .... 141 . .. 208 , . 349 The number of County Patients in the Asylum at the corre- spending period of the year 22nd December, 1870, was 344. The number of Patients admitted since the ' commencement of the year has been,— M.’ F. Total. County Patients. .... 29 . .. 42 , . 71 Out County Patients. .... 0 . 0 . . 0 Private Patients. .... ' 4 . 3 . 7 33 . .. 45 . 78 The amount per head per week charged to the Unions in the County having Patients during the four quarters has been at the rate of 9s. 4d. during the first three quarters of the year, and of 9s. lid. during the last quarter, being a small increase of charge as compared with that made for the year 1870. There are now only Five Pauper Patients in the Asylum who do not belong to this County, and the increase in the Weekly Bate of Maintenance of the Patients is attributable in a great degree to the withdrawal from this Asylum of the Patients belonging to Counties other than this, and also to the increase in the price of provisions. The following is a Table showing the cost of the main¬ tenance :—