Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, December 28, 1865 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, December 28, 1865 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The general health of the patients has been good. In the month of April two Attendants were attacked with fever, and four Patients with small pox. One of the Attendants died, the other recovered, and the small pox fortunately passed away without any fatal results. The Committee are strongly impressed with the importance of providing a detached Hospital for contagious and infectious diseases. During the earlier portion of the year several patients from the Salop and Montgomery Counties Lunatic Asylum wrere maintained in this Asylum, under contract, at the weekly charge of 12s. 3d. each. The weekly charge for the maintenance of patients belonging to other Unions or Townships not within the County of Lancaster has been 14s., whilst that for patients belonging to Unions or Townships within the County has been 7s. 7d. throughout the year. Your Committee have arranged, as far as practicable, to discharge all accounts connected with the Asylum monthly, instead of quarterly as heretofore, and the Guardians of most of the Unions within the Hundred, wishful to meet the views of the Visitors on this point, have consented to pay monthly for the maintenance of patients belonging to their respective Unions. This arrangement, it is believed, will enable the Committee to obtain provisions and other necessaries on more favourable terms. No change has taken place among the superior Officers of the Asylum, excepting Mr. Ley, one of the Assistant Medical