Report of the Committee of Visitors and fifteenth annual report of the Medical Superintendent of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts.

  • Wiltshire County Asylum.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors and fifteenth annual report of the Medical Superintendent of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    The receipts and payments during the past year are as follows :— MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT. The weekly rate of payment for patients during the first quarter of the year was 7s. 7d., and during the last three quarters, owing to the increased price of provisions and other causes, has been raised to 7s. lOgd. for each patient—viz., at the rate' of one halfpenny a day. There has, notvsdthstanding, been an excess of expenditure in every quarter, excepting that ending at Midsuramei', beyond the receipts ; amounting in the whole to £165 9s. 8d. Your Committee therefore, under the impression that the present price of provisions is more likely to rise than to fall, recommend that another halfpenny be added to the daily cost of each patient, making the weekly rate 8s. 2d. PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST ACCOUNT. The amount received from the rates during the year has been £3555 3s. 3d., and the following payments have been made :— £ s. d. Principal paid off 2000 0 0 Interest on Debt 1629 7 5 3629 7 5