The forty-fifth annual report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1863.

  • Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum.
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[1864]
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Credit: The forty-fifth annual report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1863. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM, STAFFORD, PRESENTED TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS, JANUARY 4th, 1864. -+- Since the last Report of the County Asylum was presented to this Court, on January 5th, 1863, your Committee have to state that 213 lunatics and idiots have been admitted, 124 have been discharged, and 87 have died, constituting an average of 56.62 per cent, of recoveries, and 12.53 per cent, of deaths. The average of those resident in the Asylum has been 483, whilst the total numbers on the books have averaged 583,—of these 97 have been boarded out at other Asylums, at a cost of 14s. per head per week, being a surplus charge over those maintained in the Asylum of 5s. 6d. per week for each lunatic. As the accommodation in the Asylum is limited to 250 males and 250 females, some amount of inconveni¬ ence has from time to time been felt in consequence of the excess in numbers on the male side. From the large amount of discharges it might be expected that the disproportion in the sexes, so unusual in other Asy¬ lums, would have changed, but such is not the case, as there are 256 males and 227 females now resident.