Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number of patients discharged “well” during the year greatly exceeds the number similarly discharged in any preceding year. Of these, 67 were presented with donations of from ten to twenty shillings each from the Benevo¬ lent Bund. The average number of patients attending Chapel was 416; and an average of 535 were daily employed in various trades, in labour on the Barm, or in the Garden, or at needle-work, or in the various domestic works of the Estab¬ lishment. The number of deaths, although consider¬ able, was not so great as in the preceding year. Many of them occurred in cases recently sent to the Asylum in the last stages of bodily in¬ firmity, and when, as reported last year, reco¬ very was hopeless; the only attention and treatment requisite being such as could be afforded in the sick ward of any well-regulated workhouse. Coroners' Inquests were held in 4 cases of sudden death. The verdicts of the Jury were as follows: In one case, “ Asphyxia—Choked by a piece of Beef.” In one case, “ Natural Death—from an Epileptic Fit.”