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

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number discharged cured was also greater than ever previously reported. Of these, 64 were presented, on leaving the Asylum, with donations from the Benevolent Bund, vary¬ ing generally from ten to forty shillings; but in two cases, which appeared to require the special consideration of the Committee, the respective sums of five pounds and six pounds were granted. The average number attending Chapel was 405; and an average of 487 was in constant employment on the Barm, or in the Garden, or within the walls of the Establishment. The number of deaths was considerable, and must necessarily remain so, so long as parish officers continue, as some have done, to send patients to the Asylum in the last stages of bodily infirmity, and of whose recovery no hope whatever can reasonably be entertained—seve¬ ral of such cases have died very shortly after their arrival, and their removal to the Asylum must have occasioned them much suffering. As patients in this state generally require, as we are informed, no care or attention which