The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1866.

  • Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Charminster, England)
Date:
1867
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Credit: The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1866. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OP THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. T° the Chairman and Visitors of the Dorset County Asylums. Gentlemen, Another year having passed it becomes my duty, respectfully, to submit my Annual Report with the usual statistical tables, to which are added numbers 3, 4, 5 and 7 in accordance with the suggestions of the Commissioners in Lunacy in their Report issued June, 1866. On the 1st of January, 1866, there were in the two Asylums 397 Patients—215 Males and 182 Females. During the past year there have been admitted from this County, in the ordinary way, 28 Males and 31 Females total 59. From the Dorough of Poole 2 Females. From the County Asylum of Oxford and Berks 9 Males, and from the Joint Counties Asylum, Abergavenny 3 Males, and 30 Females, making a total of admissions 40 Males and 63 Females—103. There is nothing particularly worthy of mention re¬ specting the admissions, excepting that the cases from our own County were the only ones where the least chance of recovery may be anticipated—those Patients sent, from other Counties being all chronic and incurable. These facts will tend very much to lessen any good results which may fairly have been looked for in the new tables already referred to, both in this, and in any other Asylum where Chronic Patients are sent away for a few years only—in