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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    DR. PARSE Y^S REPORT. I beg, according to custom, to submit to the Committee a Statement of the movements of the Patients during the past Year, with a few remarks on matters arising out of, or connected with, the general management and discipline of the Asylum. ^At the commencement of the year 1859 there were 300 in¬ mates—151 males and 149 females—283 of them being chargeable as paupers, and 17 as private patients. In the course of the year there have been 122 admissions—a number much larger than that of any preceding year;—only 96 of them, however, were received from the Parishes of this County; 17 others, viz., five males and 12 females, were private patients, admitted in the earlier months of the year when we were still able to accommodate that class ; and nine, viz., six males and three females, were moved here on the last day of the year, from the Asylum for the Borough of Birmingham, having been previously maintained there as lunatics found in that borough, and without ascertained settlement. Of the 96 paupers admitted as chargeable to Unions or Parishes in this County 54 were males and 42 females. In the course of the year 69 inmates have left the Asylum, and 37 have died—leaving, at its termination, 315 residents, and one out on trial. Of those that have left 16 males were the chronic cases re¬ turned to the Asylum for the County of Gloucester; 10 were dis¬ charged improved; two unimproved; and one from defect in the medical certificates, on which he was sent here; the remaining 40 were recovered. The transfer of the Gloucester patients created many vacancies on the male side at the beginning of the year; but an unusual influx of male patients, amounting to 23 in the first quarter, quickly brought back our numbers to their former standard. This, with the ordinary increase of females, rendered it necessary, by Midsummer, to dis-