Twenty-sixth annual report, 1890 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Twenty-sixth annual report, 1890 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    service held here on Sunday last 228 were present in the morning and 235 in the afternoon. There are now in the Asylum 53 Boman Catholics, and no provision is made for their spiritual wants, though a priest very occasionally visits ; whilst for the Jews, of whom a few are under treatment here, no Rabbi ever comes. There have been since our colleagues were here last 83 O patients admitted and 41 discharged, of whom 24 had recovered. The weekly rate for pauper patients is 8s. 2d., and 10 patients are received here of the private class, paying 16s. There has been no change in the principal officers here recently, and praise is due for the way the case books are noted up. W. E. FBEBE, \ Commissioners REGINALD SOUTHEY, j in Lunacy.