Twelfth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January to the end of the year 1859.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1860
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Twelfth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January to the end of the year 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OP THE VISITORS OP THE PRESENTED TO THE COUBT OE QUABTEB SESSIONS, HELD AT THE SHIRE HALL, TAUNTON, IN THE SAID COUNTY, On Tuesday, the 3rd day of January, I860. The state of the Asylum during the past year has been satisfactory. The number of deaths has been large, 27 males and 19 females, of whom 3 died within a week of their admission. The Committee would again desire to draw the attention of the Magistrates and Clergy who may be called on to sign orders for the admission of patients, to the importance of sending them at as early a stage of their disorder as possible, and also to the provision of the Act, which requires them to postpone sending patients when certified by the medical man who signs the order to be not in a fit state for removal