Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1861 together with the superintendent's fourteenth annual report, presented at the Easter sessions, 1861 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1860 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.

  • North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1861 together with the superintendent's fourteenth annual report, presented at the Easter sessions, 1861 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1860 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    North and East Ridings' Lunatic Asylum, Clifton, York, 22nd December, 1860. To Her, Majesty’s Justices oe the Peace for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire in General Quarter Sessions Assembled. THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. The Committee of Visitors in presenting their Fourteenth Annual Report of the Condition of the Asylum, have to state, that during the current year, 42 male \ and > Patients, 51 female ) chargeable to Townships in the Ridings, have been admitted, and that three male and nine female private patients have been received, besides 12 male \ and > Patients belonging to Boroughs under 7 female j Contract with the Asylum. The pressure has of late been so great on the male side, that it has been found necessary to discharge some of the private patients to make room for pauper patients belonging to the Ridings. Should this pressure continue, the Committee are apprehensive that the existing accommodation in the Asylum may eventually he found insufficient for the prompt admittance and treatment of insane persons from the Ridings, whose cases are urgent and ought to be admitted on the first application of the Parish Officers.