Third annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st day of December, 1860 : with appendix.

  • Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Third annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st day of December, 1860 : with appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18th December, 1860. °“ty. Private. Total. Male .. .... 70 10 8 88 Female .... 79 27 6 112 149 37 14 200 By these Tables, it will be seen that during the past year there has been an increase of only five Patients chargeable to the County and Isle, the out-County Patients having increased 27, and private, 9, making the total increase 413 but leav¬ ing still vacant accommodation in the Asylum for 37 male and 13 female patients, to complete the number which the Asylum was built to receive. A Report having been presented to your Com* mittee by the Finance Sub-Committee, calling at¬ tention to the large expenditure each Quarter for Coals and Fuel consumed at the Asylum, a Sub- Committee was on the 24th of April, 1860, ap¬ pointed to consider the question. That Sub-Com¬ mittee ascertained, from information they had ob¬ tained as to the quantity of coals consumed in other Asylums, containing a similar number of Patients, that the expenditure for Coals at the Cambridgeshire Asylum was excessive, and that four Boilers were'employed in various parts of the Asylum, which, with their furnaces, were con¬ structed on a very imperfect principle, both as to B