Report of the Committee of Visitors of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum : 1859.

  • County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1860?]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the County of Warwick Pauper Lunatic Asylum : 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT. The Committee of Visitors of the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, in presenting to the public a Statement of the Condition and Management of the Asylum during the past year, 1859, have not thought it requisite, or convenient, to publish again, so soon after their last Report, the mass of statistical detail contained in the Tables appended to that Report. On the present occasion, they simply print, for distribu¬ tion through the County, the Annual Report of Dr. Parsey, the Resident Medical Superintendent, addressed to the Committee of Visitors, in compliance with the Rules of the Asylum ; which, in the opinion of the Committee, contains, in a clear and lucid statement, much valuable in¬ formation on the state and condition of the Patients, and the general working of the Asylum. The Committee of Visitors participate with Dr. Parsey in the regret he expresses at the necessity which has arisen of closing the Asylum, for the present, against the admission of Private Patients above the rank of paupers. In reference to the concluding paragraph of Dr. Parsey’s Report, it is a gratification to the Committee to have it in their power to state that, under the Medical Superintendent, and the other officers more immediately con¬ nected with the management, the progress of the Asylum, throughout the year, has been highly satisfactory. The Committee have also satisfaction in stating that, in the course of the last year, they have been enabled to reduce the weekly charge for each Pauper Patient from 8s. 9d. to 8s. 6d., at which it remains ; and which they believe to be below the average charge for Pauper Patients in Lunatic Asylums generally through the country.