Report of the Committee of Visitors, and first annual report of the medical superintendent of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Wiltshire County Asylum.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, and first annual report of the medical superintendent of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tacked with symptoms of lunacy, because the prospect of permanent recovery is much facilitated, when the cases brought in are recent. Having been required by the Act to fix a sum for the payment of each patient, we have named Ten Shillings per week, being the amount at present paid to private Asylums; and Fourteen Shillings per week for Private and Out-County Patients; but so soon as our experience shall enable us to say what the cost actually is, we shall fix that sum ; and wre hope, from the example of other counties, to be enabled to put it at a lower amount. We beg to express to the Court our sense of the ready aid and co-operation, in all matters connected with the remo¬ val of patients, which the Medical Superintendent has met with from the proprietors of the various private asylums from whom patients have been received. The Buildings are now finished, and the Architect has concluded the wrorks in his department. We are proceeding in the final settlement of the accounts, in which, as well as in all the matters placed under Mr. Wyatt’s management, we have great reason to express our acknowledgments to that gentleman. We have now to apply to the Court to sanction a further loan of £9000. The total amount of bills unpaid, including Architect’s Commission, the Salary of the Clerk of the Works, fittings, furniture, farm, gas, warming apparatus, and many items,