Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session holden at Preston, December 28th, 1871 with an account of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session holden at Preston, December 28th, 1871 with an account of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other places, not within the County, has been 14s. for each patient throughout the year. The constantly increasing rise in the price of meat induced the Superintendent to make a trial of the Australian Beef and Mutton ; they have been found to be very nutritious, and are well appreciated. Mr. Holland has tendered his resignation as Superintendent of this Asylum, to take effect on the 1st of May next—having been appointed to a similar office at the County Lunatic Asylum at Whittingham, now in course of erection. The Committee avail themselves of the present opportunity of recording their testimony to the valuable services rendered to this Institution by Mr. Holland, who has held the situation of Superintendent from its foundation— a period of 22 years—and to the many eminent qualities he possesses-—to his administrative ability, as shewn in the conduct and management of an Asylum containing upwards of a thousand patients, with a full staff of officers and attendants—to his successful medical treatment of the insane, as proved by the high standard to which this institution has attained in the proportionate number of cures effected—and to his singular skill in Architectural and general arrangements, as exhibited in the alterations and additions made, on his plans and suggestions, at the Prestwich Asylum, which, during his Superintendence has been enlarged to nearly three times its original capacity and dimensions. Whilst regretting the loss which this institution will thus sustain, the Committee fully recognize the propriety and peculiar fitness of Mr. Holland’s appointment as