Report of the Committee of Visitors, the Medical Superintendent, and other papers relating to the asylum : printed by order of the Court of Quarter Session, 3rd January, 1865 / Essex Lunatic Asylum.

  • Essex Lunatic Asylum.
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1865
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, the Medical Superintendent, and other papers relating to the asylum : printed by order of the Court of Quarter Session, 3rd January, 1865 / Essex Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. To Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in Quarter Sessions assembled, at Chelmsford, in and for the County of Essex, on Tuesday, the 3rd day of January, 1865. The Justices elected at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden on the 3th day of January, 1864, as a Committee on behalf of the County of Essex, during the year next ensuing, for the purposes of the Asylum erected for the pauper lunatices of the said County and'the united Boroughs oj Colchester and Maldon, pursuant to the Act of Parliament 16 and 17 Viet., cap. 97, present this their annual report conformably with the provisions of the said Act. The Committee think it necessary to bring again under the notice of the Court the continued increase in the number of Patients, and they are sorry to observe that the increase during the year 1864, is above the average annual increase. The following is the account for the last six years:— There were in the Asylum On the 25th December, 1859...Males 17 7... Females 242.. ..Total 419 5 > 1860— „ 187- „ 260- - „ 447 > > 1861— „ 197— „ 270- - „ 467 >> 1862— „ 212- „ 286- - „ 498 > > 1863— „ 214- „ 307- - „ 521 1864— „ 232- „ 318- - ,, 550