TWENTY-THIRD  ANNUAL  REPORT 


OF  THE 


SUFFOLK  LUNATIC  ASYLUM. 

DECEMBER  1860. 


1861. 


Crating  jftlitgiatnttts. 


F.  G.  Doughty, 

ANDERSON,  THOMAS,  CLK. 
ALDERSON,  S.  H.  CLK. 

BENCE,  H.  B.  ESQ. 

BEDIN GFIELD,  J.  CLK. 
BINGHAM,  P.  CLK. 

BERNERS,  J.  ESQ. 
BURROUGHES,  T.  d’eYE,  ESQ. 
CORRANCE,  F.  ESQ. 
CHEYALLIER,  B.  M.D. 

COOKE,  J.  T.  CLK. 

DOUGHTY,  F.  G.  ESQ. 

GORTON,  R.  C.  CLK. 

HILL,  C.  CLK. 


Esq.  Chairman . 

HEIGHAM,  J.  H.  ESQ. 
IRELAND,  T.  J.  ESQ. 
KERRICH,  J.  ESQ. 
KERRISON,  SIR  E.  C.  BART. 
LOYE,  E.  M.  CLK, 

OWEN,  H.  CLK. 

PRATT,  JERMYN,  CLK. 
PACKE,  JAMES,  ESQ. 
ROWLEY,  SIR  R.  C.  BART. 
SHEPPARD,  J.  G.  ESQ. 
WALFORD,  CHARLES,  ESQ. 
WILSON,  H.  ESQ. 


REPORT. 


The  concluding  year  it  is  well  known  has  been  an  eventful 
one ;  and  though  it  is  now  leaving  us  amidst  heavy  anxieties, 
and  with  much  anticipative  labour  in  hand,  still  every  feeling 
for  the  past  is  a  thankful  feeling,  as  every  hope  for  the  future 
is  an  encouraging  hope.  The  patients  have  been  healthy 
throughout  the  year.  The  numerical  comparison  with  former 
years,  of  patients  admitted,  discharged,  and  died,  is  nearly 
equal :  the  proportion  of  female  over  male  patients  is  again 
greater  in  admissions,  and  consequently  in  discharges,  cured. 


The  state  of  the  House  this  day  is  as  follows  : — 


Males. 

Females 

Total. 

Patients  in  the  House,  31st.  December,  1859- 

131 

181 

312 

„  Admitted  in  1860  _ _ _ 

— 

39 

64 

103 

170 

245 

415 

M. 

F. 

Total. 

Discharged — cured - - 

9 

33 

42 

,,  relieved - - 

1 

2 

3 

Died _ _ _ _ 

18 

18 

36 

28 

53 

81 

Total. 

142 

192 

334 

The  per  centage  of  cures  on  admissions  is . .  40  ^ 
Per  centage  of  deaths  on  resident  numbers . .  8 


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Large  and  repeated  magisterial  meetings  took  place  at  the 
beginning  of  the  year,  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the 
best  mode  of  overcoming  existing  difficulties  ;  and  removing 
a  somewhat  hazardous  pressure  on  the  female  side  of  the 
House.  The  question  turned  upon  the  probable  advantages 
of  building  another  Asylum  in  the  Western  Division  of  the 
County,  or  those  which  might  be  obtained  by  making  sun¬ 
dry  alterations,  and  effecting  improvements  in  this  House. 
After  very  minute  and  careful  investigations,  it  was  con¬ 
sidered  advisable  to  alter  some  portions  of  the  present 
Building ;  and  by  removing  some  obstructions,  to  make 
provision  for  the  future  reception  of  more  female  patients. 
The  Laundry  departments  were  faulty,  the  drying  yard  much 
too  small,  the  dairy  encroached  on  one  of  the  airing  courts 
and  made  it  dull  and  damp ;  and  an  unoccupied  piece  of 
ground  at  the  back  of  the  House  presented  a  tempting  space 
to  fill  up. 

By  the  removal  of  the  dairy  which  is  now  re-built  in  a  more 
convenient  spot;  and  by  the  alterations  completed  and  in 
progress,  the  apartments  and  airing  courts  for  the  females 
will  be  less  enclosed,  and  additional  accommodation  secured. 
The  buildings  have  obtained  official,  and  we  may  say  indeed 
general  commendation ;  and  though  the  work  has  been 
carried  on  under  all  the  disadvantages  of  a  very  wet  season, 
the  ardour  of  the  patients  who  have  been  employed,  has  not 
been  damped  by  it.  One  man  the  subject  of  recurrent 
mania,  required  some  authority  to  control  his  efforts,  and  to 
keep  his  labours  within  due  limits.  A  proof  of  existing  re¬ 
gard  for  his  former  abode,  was  shewn  by  a  patient  who  was 
discharged  six  years  ago :  he  is  a  bricklayer,  and  hearing 
that  we  had  difficulty  in  obtaining  such  handycraftsmen,  he 
left  other  employ,  and  came  regularly  to  work  as  a  paid 
labourer  with  his  son.  The  zeal  of  a  very  insane  but  very 
able  director  was  most  conspicuous,  as  he  stood  working 
himself  and  encouraging  others,  to  complete  the  roof  of  a 


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large  day  room,  lest  the  internal  work  should  be  stopped  by 
the  continuance  of  wet  weather.  A  self  appointed  sentinel 
in  the  person  of  an  insane  female,  keeps  effective  guard 
every  day,  over  this  new  property.  The  new  day  room  will 
be  one  of  the  best  in  the  Asylum,  its  dimensions  are  50ft. 
long,  by  22ft.  wide,  and  12ft.  high,  with  large  bay  windows 
with  French  casements  opening  front  and  back,  and  four  side 
windows  overlooking  the  two  largest  airing  courts.  We  trust 
that  architectural  eyes  may  rest  with  satisfaction  upon  it,  and 
we  know  that  the  patients  will  find  comfort  in  it.  We  have 
not  found  any  inconvenience  from  bringing  numbers  together. 
Between  70  and  80  females  dine  every  day  in  the  front  hall 
in  peace  and  quietness.  An  associated  dormitory  completed 
on  the  vacant  ground  referred  to,  will  hold  fourteen  beds, 
according  to  the  size  and  space  estimated  by  the  Commis¬ 
sioners  in  Lunacy,  who  at  their  last  visit  examined  it  very 
minutely,  and  ascertained  that  it  would  give  rather  more  than 
500  cubic  feet  of  air  per  patient.  This  room  with  a  smaller 
dormitory  adjacent,  will  bring  the  means  of  encreased  ac¬ 
commodation  in  this  portion  of  the  Building,  for  about  25 
patients.  If  the  number  of  females  should  encrease  beyond 
200,  our  ingenuity  must  be  taxed  again. 

The  small  cost  of  these  indispensable  alterations  cannot 
be  taken  as  a  precedent,  if  more  extensive  buildings  are  re¬ 
quired.  However  we  may  have  been  able  to  economize  by 
improving  faulty  portions  of  the  building,  the  credit  is  due 
to  the  patients  ;  they  have  been  the  great  labourers.  But 
the  work  of  such  labourers  must  be  subject  to  occasional  in¬ 
terruptions  ;  it  is  frequently  impulsive,  and  very  many  have 
worked  throughout  the  year  with  an  alacrity  which  cannot 
always  be  obtained.  In  any  future  enlargement  more  single 
rooms  would  be  required ;  and  these  are  much  more  expen¬ 
sive  to  build  and  to  furnish.  Every  asylum  should  possess  at 
least  one-third  of  such  sleeping  apartments.  The  new  rooms 
provided  for  two  female  attendants  have  the  means  of  con¬ 
stant  oversight.  All  the  females  can  be  seen  from  these  rooms 


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day  and  night,  and  though  this  detached  building  with  its 
ample  dimensions  can  hardly  be  called  a  cottage,  it  bears 
quite  a  domestic  character  and  aspect.  The  boundary  walls 
of  the  airing  court  (150ft.  square)  and  the  division  for  the 
drying  yard  are  marked  out  for  completion.  As  far  as  safety 
will  allow  of  it,  we  propose  to  make  these,  dwarf  walls;  those 
round  the  old  airing  courts  are  still  too  high.  Five  acres  of 
land  have  been  obtained  by  rent  from  the  Rev.  W.  P.  Larken. 
They  are  a  valuable  addition,  more  especially  as  there  is 
little  probability  of  our  obtaining  enough  land  to  meet  the 
demands  of  the  Commissioners,  whose  estimated  quantity  is 
now  one  acre  to  every  four  patients.  There  is  a  very  nice 

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site  for  a  very  nice  chapel,  but  the  chapel  itself  is  still  an 
unsatisfied  want  by  a  population  of  nearly  400  inmates. 

We  have  not  been  able  to  do  more  by  way  of  improving 
the  older  portions  of  the  building,  than  has  been  peremp¬ 
torily  demanded.  The  large  roof  has  had  frequent  repair* 
the  baths  have  been  altered  and  improved,  the  internal 
decorations  have  been  increased?  and  the  majority  of  the  bed 
rooms  and  day  rooms  are  now  papered  and  painted.  Addi¬ 
tional  seats  have  been  made  for  the  airing  courts,  and  others 
have  been  placed  in  better  positions,  which  in  some  measure 
may  tend  to  prevent  an  objectionable  habit  which  some  of 
the  female  patients  have,  to  sit  upon  the  ground ;  or  as  it 
has  been  more  expressively  than  elegantly  said  “  to  crouch.” 
If  this  undignified  attitude  is  not  very  attractive ,  it  is  hardly 
we  think  so  repulsive  as  to  make  it  a  matter  of  importance. 
The  few  patients  who  may  be  seen  occasionally  in  this 
inelegant  posture,  choose  it  for  themselves ;  and  perhaps  with 
a  disposition  to  embrace  the  opinion  of  the  Kaffir  Chief,  who 
under  reproof  for  refusing  a  chair,  justified  it  by  the  expressed 
conviction  that  the  “ground  was  safer  and  surer,  and  that  only 
Englishmen  and  chickens  rested  on  perches.”  It  is  always 
an  entreaty  of  ours  to  the  attendants,  to  let  the  female  patients 
that  are  quiet,  be  quiet,  and  though  the  selected  attitude  may 


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not  be  such  as  to  command  admiration,  if  it  is  a  comfortable 
one  we  feel  reluctant  to  alter  it.  A  few  weeks  ago  we  had 
to  bear  a  personal  attack  for  gently  asking  a  patient  to  change 
her  position;  she  looked  on  it  as  impertinent  interference, 
and  resented  it  accordingly ;  and  having  experienced  her 
disagreeable  mode  of  conveying  reproof  for  our  temerity,  most 
certainly  we  shall  not  repeat  it.  From  somewhat  similar 
sympathy  we  dissent  from  the  encouragement  of  a  night 
watch  disturbing  sleeping  patients  to  prevent  uncleanly 
habits.  The  number  of  such  patients  has  been  greatly 
reduced  on  the  male  side  of  the  House,  but  without  having 
recourse  to  this  questionable  practice.  We  have  several 
patients  now  who  would  show  their  displeasure  if  they  were 
disturbed,  in  a  very  outrageous  and  perhaps  dangerous  man¬ 
ner  ;  and  if  the  expression  of  this  negative  opinion  which 
we  advance  should  be  objected  to,  we  can  only  say  that  we 
have  learnt  it  at  the  patient’s  bed-side. 

Several  patients  have  been  admitted  this  year  in  a  very 
exhausted  state,  four  above  70  years  of  age,  and  three  above 
80.  One  is  now  with  us  of  94,  and  another  of  84, 

A  corrected  dietary  is  given  at  the  end  of  this  report. 
The  former  table  remained  unaltered  in  print,  though  it  has 
long  since  been  improved  in  practice.  All  the  patients  who 
work  have  full  generous  diet. 

The  deficiency  of  the  water  supply  which  was  noticed  last 
year,  arose  from  the  long  continued  drought.  There  is  now 
abundance  of  water  in  the  well. 

The  usual  recreative  indulgencies  have  been  enjoyed  by 
the  patients,  and  amongst  them  the  visit  to  the  sea-side  was 
an  anticipative,  an  actual,  and  a  retrospective  treat. 

We  continue  to  hold  satisfactory  intercourse  with  several 
patients  who  have  left  us.  One  man  whose  case  was  of 
peculiar  interest,  tells  us  of  his  present  comfortable  position 
in  regular  work ;  and  he  adds  the  assurance  that  if  he  felt 
those  premonitory  symptoms  of  mental  disturbance  which  he 


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had  on  a  former  attack,  that  he  would  not  fail  of  his  own 
accord  to  come  back  again.  Such  grateful  recollections  of 
benefits  received  are  experienced  in  all  our  asylums  repeatedly: 
and  it  is  a  consolatory  feeling  to  encourage,  that  whatever  the 
home  may  be,  the  former  resident  may  look  back  to  it  and 
know  that  he  is  not  homeless. 

It  may  be  well  to  direct  attention  to  a  custom  lately  arisen 
which  we  believe  to  be  very  injurious  to  the  best  interests  of 
the  patients;  it  is  that  of  making  private  application  for 
their  summary  discharge.  It  is  by  no  means  an  uncommon 
thing  for  request  to  be  made  within  a  week  of  a  patient’s 
admission,  for  a  statement  of  the  probable  time  of  his 
removal ;  and  it  becomes  quite  perplexing  to  know  how  to 
obey  two  laws  of  such  contrariety,  as  the  law  of  courtesy,  and 
the  law  of  lunacy.  We  have  now  in  the  House  a  dangerous 
epileptic  whose  fits  induce  mania;  some  of  his  parishioners 
are  threatening  us  with  displeasure  for  not  sanctioning  his 
discharge.  This  patient  had  seriously  injured  one  man, 
broken  his  leg  ;  attacked  another  without  any  provocation  ; 
and  alarmed  a  third  by  forcibly  entering  his  house ;  we  have 
private  applications  for  his  removal  home.  A  similar  demand 
was  made  a  short  time  ago,  backed  on  the  authority  of  a 
former  patient  in  the  House. 

It  would  be  enough  in  noticing  such  applications,  to  con¬ 
vey  the  assurance  that  no  patient  is  ever  detained  a  day 
longer  than  is  considered  to  be  for  his  welfare  ;  and  that 
the  mode  of  discharge  is  regulated  (under  penalties  on  in¬ 
fraction,)  by  legislative  enactment.  But  we  press  it,  upon 
the  knowledge  that  very  sad  results  occasionally  take  place 
from  injudicious  discharges ;  results  which  as  far  as  we  can 
judge,  not  even  temporary  removals  on  trial *  could  prevent. 
This  injudicious  and  unstatutable  urgency  is  very  embarras¬ 
sing.  Concealed  purposes  require  more  solid  experience  to 


*  Sec.  79  Cap.  97, 16  and  17  Viet. 


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discover,  and  more  caution  to  treat,  than  outward  acts ;  and 
it  is  easier  in  insane  life  (as  perhaps  in  sane  life)  to  assume 
the  cunning  of  the  serpent,  than  to  carry  out  the  harmless¬ 
ness  of  the  dove.  It  is  an  erroneous  impression  that  patients 
who  work  well  in  the  Asylum,  will  do  so  quietly  out  of  it. 
They  are  not  cured  and  then  set  to  work ;  but  they  are  set 
to  work  that  they  may  be  cured. 

This  notice  will  lead  to  the  very  important  consideration 
of  the  condition  of  many  patients  ajter  discharge.  Any  one 
hearing  the  frequent  expressions  of  gratitude  on  restoration 
to  health  and  sanity,  or  seeing  the  letters  in  which 
the  feelings  of  affection  are  conveyed  towards  all  those 
who  have  been  instrumental  in  promoting  them ;  must 
sorrow  over  those  recurrent  attacks  which  frequently 
take  place  from  the  patients’  experiencing  such  deprivations 
as  a  little  judicious  help  might  prevent.  That  such  renewed 
attacks  do  take  place,  and  from  this  cause,  even  in  parishes 
carefully  tended,  and  whose  poor  inhabitants  are  objects  of 
Christian  solicitude  is  well  known  :  the  reluctance  to  confess 
it  by  the  sufferers  themselves  only  encreases  the  probability 
of  recurrence.  No  greater  boon  could  be  afforded  to  those 
patients  whose  means  of  support  after  discharge  are  very 
limited,  than  the  allowance  of  temporary  assistance  judiciously 
afforded.  We  should  be  glad  to  promote  and  to  forward  the 
establishment  of  a  well  arranged  distribution  fund  in  imi¬ 
tation  of  the  Adelaide  fund  in  the  Metropolitan  Institutions, 
and  in  many  of  the  large  Asylums.  It  would  be  true  Christian 
philanthropy  to  obtain  one  for  every  County  Asylum  in 
England,  and  we  have  reason  to  believe  that  this  will  be  done 
shortly.  Such  a  fund  would  be  economic,  though  this  is  a 
low  estimate  to  take  of  its  importance.  Wives  and  mothers 
of  families,  returning  home  in  health  established  by  generous 
diet  to  nurse  upon  water,  grow  irritable  and  fractious. 
Husbands  and  fathers  tired  with  day  labour  get  unreasonably 
impatient,  and  mutual  deprivations  lead  to  renewed  distrac- 


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tions,  and  distractions  to  recurrent  mania.  The  permitted 
grant  in  clause  79.  (the  trial  clause)  to  afford  temporary  relief 
to  patients  discharged  upon  trial,  does  not  allow  an  extension 
to  those  whose  cases  may  be  the  most  urgent.  It  sanctions 
no  provision  for  patients  unconditionally  discharged,  that  is 
to  say  patients  cured.  We  want  a  fund  whose  means  will 
tend  to  keep  those  well  who  go  home  well ;  and  to  add  it  as 
“  the  Missnsr g  link  ”  to  that  great  chain  of  liberality  whose 
length  reaches  to  almost  every  condition  of  our  poor.  To 
many  of  our  inmates  the  County  may  be  said  to  be  indebted. 
They  may  not  feel  this  themselves,  and  perhaps  if  they 
were  really  asked  to  express  it,  the  most  hard  working 
amongst  them  would  only  echo  Macbeth’s  sentiment  in  their 
own  language,  but  with  equal  sincerity,  “  the  service  and  the 
loyalty  I  owe  ;  in  doing  it,  pays  itself.”  Still  if  a  portion 
of  their  justly  estimated  savings  could  be  put  aside  (in  addi¬ 
tion  to  private  bounty,)  for  their  own,  or  their  associates 
future  wants,  an  incalculable  benefit  might  be  conferred. 

We  know  a  case  in  point.  A  female  patient  transferred 
from  this  House  to  another  County  Asylum,  where  fortunately 
for  her  such  a  fund  was  in  operation,  has  been  in  the  receipt 
of  three  shillings  a  week  from  it  since  her  discharge,  and 
if  she  is  still  living  she  takes  this  allowance  monthly,  and  in 
all  probability  is  preserved  by  it  from  being  burdensome  to 
her  parish  and  an  object  of  pitiable  distress. 

Some  alteration  has  taken  place  in  the  appointed  order  for 
the  duties  of  the  chaplain.  An  observance  of  this,  will  tend 
much  to  promote  the  regularity  and  internal  discipline  of  the 
House ;  and  give  the  relatives  of  those  patients  wdio  can 
only  visit  them  on  the  Sabbath,  an  opportunity  of  knowing 
the  hours  in  which  they  can  do  so,  without  interference  with 
sacred  or  secular  duties.  Divine  Service  is  now  directed  to 
take  place  at  eleven  o’clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  three 
o’clock  in  the  afternoon  alternately.  Notice'  of  this  is 
printed  and  placed  early  every  Sunday  morning  at  the  entrance 


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gate.  The  Sabbath  if  not  properly  kept  in  its  canonical 
observances,  becomes  a  day  of  confusion  rather  than  a  day  of 
rest  in  an  asylum:  our  object  has  been  and  is,  to  secure  it  as  the 
latter,  and  in  the  endeavour  to  do  so  we  have  always  felt  the 
importance  of  those  delicate  duties  which  the  Physician 
Superintendent  has  to  fulfil,  in  conjunction  with  those  which 
may  be  propounded  from  the  vantage  ground  of  the  pulpit. 

“  To  understand  any  man  we  must  have  sympathy  for  him, 
even  affection.  No  intellectual  acuteness,  no  amount  even 
of  mere  pity  will  enable  us  to  see  the  man  from  within,  and 
put  our  own  souls,  in  the  place  of  his  soul.  To  do  that,  one 
must  feel  and  confess  within  oneself,  the  seed  of  the  same 
errors  which  we  endeavour  to  correct  in  him  ;  one  must  have 
passed  more  or  less  through  his  temptations,  doubts,  hunger 
of  heart  and  brain.”  A  knowledge  of  character  and  state  of 
mind  are  indispenable  for  doing  good.  In  conveying  spiritual 
instruction  to  the  insane,  the  language  of  experience  is  cautious 
and  suggestive,  and  rather  addressed  with  advantage  to  indi¬ 
vidual  cases,  than  to  the  masses.  While  the  replies  that  some 
well  taught  patients  make,  will  call  the  theological  powers  of 
the  querist  into  exercise,  (and  if  erroneous,)  to  combat :  the 
answers  that  are  given  by  those  who  are  indiscriminately 
addressed,  afford  but  too  clear  a  proof  how  readily  form  may 
degenerate  into  nonsense,  and  nonsense  even  into  mockery. 
A  patient  may  be  asked  a  solemn  question,  he  gives  an  absurd 
answer,  and  the  others  laugh. 

The  Bishop  of  Exeter  proposed  to  the  British  Medical 
Association  through  the  late  Chancellor  Martin,  the  forma¬ 
tion  of  a  medical  diaconate.  Though  there  seem  to  be 
insuperable  objections  to  such  a  combined  establishment  in 
general ,  the  idea  involved  in  the  meaning  of  the  word,  that  of 
“helpful  service”  must  be  to  some  extent  carried  out  by 
every  asylum  officer. 


*  Kingsley. 


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Man  is  by  nature  a  rational,  a  responsible,  and  an  im¬ 
mortal  being  ;  and  when  He  “who  giveth  not  account  of  any 
of  His  matters,”  *  in  the  mysterious  silence  of  His  dealings, 
takes  away  the  first,  rationality  ;  there  is  doubtless  a  removal 
of  the  second  responsibility ;  but  the  third,  immortality 
remains.  This  mortal,  whether  rational  or  irrational  in  this 
life,  must  put  on  immortality,  and  the  physician  as  he  treats 
the  ailments  of  the  natural  body,  cannot  and  ought  not  to 
lose  sight  of  that  spiritual  body  in  vdiich  it  has  to  be  raised 
again. 

JOHN  KIRKMAN,  M.D. 


*  Job  xxxiii.  13. 


Suffolk.  County  Asylum, 
September  4 th.  1860. 

The  changes  in  the  patients  since  the  visit  of  our  colleagues 
on  the  8th.  December,  1859,  have  been  as  follows  : — 

M.  F.  Total. 

Admitted  — - - - ****** .***  30  51  81 

Discharged  *** - - - ****** — ***  8  27  35 

,,  of  whom  recovered**, - -  6  25  31 

Died  from  ordinary  causes  ****. _ ** —  13  11  24 

The  patients  all  of  whom  we  have  seen  are,  at  present 
335  in  number,  viz. — 141  males  and  191  females. 

With  one  special  exception  they  all  belong  to  the  County 
of  Suffolk. 

No  arrangement  has  been  entered  into,  nor  is  any  in 
contemplation  for  the  reception  of  the  pauper  lunatics  of 
Ipswich,  or  Bury  St,  Edmund’s,  the  only  non-contributory 
Boroughs  in  the  County. 

The  present  number  of  beds,  including  those  in  the  two 
7-bedded  new  dormitories  referred  to  in  the  last  Commis¬ 
sioners’  Report  is  355,  viz.— 157  in  the  male  and  198  in  the 
female  division. 

Since  the  last  visit  a  dormitory  has  been  constructed  at  the 
back  of  the  two  dormitories  last  mentioned,  capable  of  con¬ 
taining  14  beds,  and  at  a  cost  not  exceeding  £100. 

This  will  make  the  accommodation  for  male  patients  157 
and  for  females  212,  total  369.  The  vacancies  are  now  16 
on  the  male  side  and  4  on  the  female. 

The  total  quantity  of  land  belonging  to  the  Asylum  is  in 
round  numbers  30  acres,  of  which  about  6  are  under  spade 
cultivation. 

There  appears  to  be  little  prospect  of  purchasing  any 
additional  land,  and  there  would  as  we  are  informed  be  diffi¬ 
culty  in  obtaining  by  the  year  more  than  10  acres  for  the 
occupation  of  the  male  patients. 


14 


The  weekly  charge  for  Suffolk  paupers  has  been  reduced 
from  95.  6d.  to  85.  6d.,  the  average  for  Borough  and  out 
County  patients  is  always  35.  6d.  beyond  that  for  Suffolk 
patients. 

We  found  the  patients  of  both  sexes,  free  from  excitement, 
well  clad,  and  otherwise  personally  in  a  satisfactory  condition. 

The  patients  are  generally  in  good  bodily  health,  only  7 
males  and  8  females  being  registered  as  under  medical  treat¬ 
ment.  One  patient  only,  a  female  in  a  sinking  state,  was  at 
the  time  of  our  visit  in  bed  from  sickness.  Mechanical 
restraint  is  never  employed.  Since  the  last  visit,  10  males 
and  34  females  have  been  secluded,  the  former  on  16  and 
the  latter  on  65  occasions. 

According  to  the  ward  returns,  7  male  patients  and  9 
females  were  wet  during  the  night  before  our  visit ;  2  of  the 
former  and  6  of  the  latter  being  also  dirty. 

There  is  not  any  regular  night  watch. 

We  are  glad  to  learn  that  the  erection  of  a  detached 
chapel  is  under  consideration,  and  we  trust  that  the  plan 
will  be  carried  out  without  unnecessary  delay. 

The  defective  construction  and  arrangement  of  the  baths 
is  about  immediately  to  be  remedied. 

A  new  and  convenient  dairy  is  in  progress  of  erection,  and 
on  the  site  of  the  present  dairy  a  good  day  room  and  nurses’ 
room,  are  about  to  be  constructed. 

Other  improvements  are  proposed  and  will  shortly  be 
carried  out.  These  will  include  the  removal  of  the  present 
drying  ground,  and  its  addition  to  the  adjoining  airing  court. 

We  found  the  Asylum  throughout  clean  and  in  good  order. 

The  dinner  on  the  day  of  our  visit  was  very  good,  consist¬ 
ing  of  boiled  beef,  bacon  and  beans,  with  bread  and  beer. 

The  general  condition  and  management  of  the  Institution 
continues  to  be  creditable  to  the  Superintendent  and  other 
officers. 

o-  7  (  R.  W.  J.  LUTWIDGE  \  Commissioners 
^gnea  j  R0BERT  NAIRNE  j  in  Lunacy. 


No.  1. 

PATIENTS  ADMITTED,  DISCHARGED,  AND  DIED, 

From  1st.  of  January  1860,  to  31st.  December. 


Males. 

Females 

Total. 

Patients  in  the  House  31st 

December, 

1859 

131 

181 

312 

Admitted  in  1860  . 

42 

65 

107 

Males. 

Females, 

Total. 

173 

246 

419 

Discharged — cured  . . 

10 

37 

47 

-  relieved _ 

1 

2 

3 

Died . 

20 

18 

38 

31 

57 

88 

Remaining  in  the  House  31st.  Dec. 

1860 

142 

189 

331 

16 


No.  2. 

ASCERTAINED  AND  SUPPOSED  CAUSES  OF  IN¬ 
SANITY  IN  THE  107  PATIENTS  ADMITTED 
DURING  THE  YEAR  1859, 


Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Change  of  Life . 

1 

1 

Death  of  Niece . 

1 

1 

Diseased  Brain . 

2 

2 

Debility . 

2 

4 

6 

Epilepsy  . 

2 

3 

5 

Family  Dissensions . 

1 

1 

F rom  Birth  . . 

1 

1 

Fright  . 

1 

1 

Hereditary  . 

3 

7 

10 

Ill-treatment  of  Daughter  . 

1 

1 

Injury  of  Head . . . 

1 

1 

Intemperance  . 

3 

2 

5 

Jealousy  . 

1 

1 

Loss  of  Children  . 

2 

2 

Loss  of  Employment  . 

1 

1 

Loss  of  Money . 

2 

1 

3 

Puerperal  State  . . 

8 

8 

Religious  Insanity  . 

1 

2 

3 

Unknown . ........ . 

13 

15 

28 

Weak  Health  . . 

5 

4 

9 

Want  of  Money  . . 

1 

1 

Weak  Mind . 

7 

9 

16 

Total . 

44 

63 

107 

T  t*T 

1  i 


No.  3. 


OF  THE  107  PATIENTS  ADMITTED  IN  THE 

YEAR  1860. 


Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Discharged,  cured  . . 

7 

8 

15 

,,  relieved  . .  . 

1 

1 

Died  . . . .  . . 

5 

4 

9 

Remaining  . 

29 

53 

82 

Total . 

[  41 

66 

107 

No.  4. 

DOMESTIC  CONDITION  OF  THE  107  PATIENTS 
ADMITTED  IN  THE  YEAR  1860. 


Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Married  . . . 

20 

29 

49 

Single . 

16 

26 

42 

Widowed  . . . 

5 

11 

16 

Total . 

41 

66 

107 

18 


m 

TABLE  OF  ADMISSIONS,  ] 


In  the  whole  Thirty-two  Yeai 


1 

MALES. 

FEMALE 

Years. 

| 

Admitted. 

Discharged. 

Died. 

Escaped. 

[  Admitted. 

Discharge 

Cured. 

Relieved. 

Total. 

|  Cured. 

Relieved 

1829 

72 

11 

11 

11 

70 

9 

2 

1830 

48 

12 

9 

21 

11 

34 

12 

3 

1  1831 

42 

8 

4 

12 

16 

45 

19 

3 

1  1832 

42 

21 

4 

25 

17 

25 

20 

2 

1833 

34 

18 

4 

22 

14 

2 

31 

14 

5 

1834 

32 

16 

7 

23 

9 

1 

32 

18 

5 

1835 

39 

18 

9 

27 

8 

40 

15 

8 

1836 

30 

11 

13 

24 

7 

26 

11 

16 

1837 

30 

13 

5 

18 

11 

46 

17 

1 

1838 

35 

16 

2 

18 

13 

31 

21 

2 

1839 

29 

15 

5 

20 

10 

1 

53 

27 

9 

1840 

31 

14 

1 

15 

7 

1 

38 

23 

3 

1841 

35 

16 

2 

18 

13 

29 

16 

1 

1842 

27 

10 

2 

12 

10 

34 

14 

2 

1843 

33 

9 

6 

15 

13 

34 

17 

5 

1844 

36 

19 

2 

21 

9 

30 

13 

1845 

42 

22 

3 

25 

13 

40 

16 

1846 

37 

19 

19 

16 

1 

44 

24 

1 

1847 

44 

16 

1 

17 

24 

42 

13 

2 

1848 

31 

13 

13 

11 

1 

51 

26 

2 

1849 

27 

10 

11 

21 

9 

55 

34 

5 

1850 

36 

21 

4 

25 

17 

1 

47 

29 

1 

1851 

36 

25 

3 

28 

20 

55 

26 

8  l 

1852 

51 

22 

2 

24 

17 

47 

28 

8 

1853 

49 

22 

2 

24 

19 

44 

20 

7 

1854 

34 

22 

3 

25 

15 

47 

24 

2 

1855 

43 

20 

2 

12 

17 

40 

28 

3 

1856 

42 

21 

2 

23 

16 

47 

18 

5 

1857 

40 

27 

2 

29 

17 

56 

27 

7 

1858 

46 

19 

1 

20 

18 

72 

39 

5 

1859 

47 

22 

2 

24 

22 

65 

34 

1 

42 

10 

1 

11 

20 

65 

37 

2 

Total. 

1242 

528 

114 

642 

i 

450 

8 

1415 

689 

119  ! 

Daily  Average  for  i 


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159 

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239 

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131 

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139 

262 

82 

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134 

253 

83 

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137 

250 

91 

51 

9 

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35 

101 

143 

244 

98 

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10 

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27 

111 

144 

255 

93 

42 

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36 

117 

144 

261 

81 

46 

5 

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30 

111 

150 

261 

83 

38 

5 

43 

32 

125 

144 

269 

89 

39 

7 

46 

31 

128 

153 

281 

96 

54 

9 

63 

36 

122 

156 

278 

118 

58 

6 

64 

38 

130 

164 

294 

112 

56 

3 

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35 

131 

181 

312 

107 

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189 

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No.  6. 

RELIGIOUS  DENOMINATION  OF  THE  107  PATIENTS 
ADMITTED  IN  THE  YEAR  1860. 


1 

Religious  D enomination . 

Males. 

F  emales. 

Total. 

 -- 

Church  of  England  . .  ..... 

32 

49 

81 

|  Baptists  . 

2 

2 

4 

Wesleyan  Dissenters . . . 

2 

7 

9 

Independents . 

1 

5 

6 

Unknown  . . 

2 

3 

5 

None  (Idiots) . . . . 

. 

2 

2 

Total . . 

41 

66 

107 

No.  7. 


DEGREE  OF  EDUCATION  OF  THE  107  PATIENTS 
ADMITTED  IN  THE  YEAR  1860. 


Degree  of  Education. 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Able  to  Read  and  Write  . 

21 

28 

49 

Able  to  Read . . . 

11 

26 

37 

Unable  to  Read . 

9 

12 

21 

Total 

41 

66 

107 

21 


No.  8. 

OCCUPATIONS  OF  THE  107  PATIENTS  ADMITTED 

IN  THE  YEAR  1860. 


Occupations, 

Males. 

Females. 

Total. 

Agricultural  Labourers . 

18 

18 

„  ,,  Wives.... 

16 

16 

,,  ,,  Widows  .  . 

1 

1 

,,  ,,  Daughters 

2 

2 

Blacksmiths  . . 

2 

2 

„  Wife  . . 

1 

1 

Bonnet  Maker  . . . 

1 

1 

Carpenter  . . . 

1 

1 

,,  Wives  . . 

2 

2 

Carters  . 

2 

2 

Charwoman  .  .  .  .  . . 

1 

1 

Clerk’s  Wife . 

1 

1 

Domestic  Servants . 

9 

9 

Dress  Maker . 

1 

1 

Drayman’s  Wife  . 

1 

1 

Fisherman . 

1 

1 

Farmers . . 

2 

2 

„  Wife . . 

1 

1 

Gardener  . . 

1 

1 

Innkeeper  . . . 

1 

1 

Lime  Burner . . 

1 

1 

Millwright  ,  .  . . . 

1 

1 

No  Occupations . . . 

5 

17 

22 

Nurse  . . . . 

1 

1 

Plaiter  . . . 

1 

1 

Policeman’s  Wife . . 

1 

1 

Paper  Maker . .  . 

1 

1 

Sailor’s  Wife . . 

1 

1 

School  Mistress . . 

1 

1 

School  Master  .  . . . . 

1 

1 

Shoemaker’s  Wives  . 

2 

2 

,,  Daughter . 

1 

1 

Soldiers . . 

2 

2 

Tailors  . 

2 

2 

Tailoresses  . . 

3 

3 

Washerwoman  . .  .  . 

1 

1 

Total . 

41 

66 

107 

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No.  10. 

TABLE  EXHIBITING  THE  CAUSES  OF  DEATH,  FORM 
OF  INSANITY,  DURATION  OF  MENTAL  MALADY, 
AND  PERIODS  OF  RESIDENCE  IN  THE  ASYLUM,  IN 
THE  CASES  WHICH  TERMINATED  FATALLY  DUR¬ 
ING  THE  YEAR  1860. 


Cf} 

V 

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<  . 

CO 

Cause  of  Deatli. 

Residence 
in  Asylum. 

Total 

Duration  of 
Insanity. 

Form  of  Insanity. 

Yrs. 

Mos. 

Dys. 

Yrs. 

Mos. 

Dys1 

1 

49 

M 

Gradual  Exhaustion  — 

1 

3 

26 

1 

4 

3 

Mania 

2 

30 

F 

Ditto  ********* _ _ _ _ 

8 

8 

5 

9 

8 

5 

Ditto 

o 

O 

56 

M 

Epilepsy  - - - — 

2 

10 

0 

2 

10 

17 

Ditto 

4 

39 

M 

Maniacal  Exhaustion*** 

26 

3 

26 

Acute  Mania 

5 

48 

F 

Gradual  Exhaustion  *** 

2 

4 

20 

2 

7 

8 

Melancholia 

6 

50 

F 

DlttO 

1 

5 

10 

1 

8 

10 

Mania 

7 

41 

F 

Lung-  Disease  ^ ^ 

5 

23 

1 

8 

17 

Ditto 

8 

45 

M 

Maniacal  Exhaustion*** 

5 

14 

5 

21 

Ditto 

9 

80 

F 

Gradual  Exhaustion  — 

4 

10 

25 

4 

11 

25 

Recurrent  Melancholia 

10 

43 

F 

Ditto  ********************* 

16 

5 

27 

18 

4 

15 

Mania 

11 

53 

M 

Coup  de  Soleil  — ****** 

27 

9 

12 

33 

8 

14 

Ditto 

12 

64 

M 

Maniacal  Exhaustion**. 

4 

4 

23 

4 

5 

1 

Melancholia 

13 

70 

M 

Paralysis  — **** — ****** 

o 

O 

8 

6 

3 

8 

20 

M  ania 

14 

50 

F 

Diarrhoea  vw 

13 

11 

20 

17 

10 

9 

Dementia 

15 

62 

M 

General  Paralysis  ****** 

3 

11 

6 

11 

M  ania 

16 

57 

F 

a. 

Gradual  Exhaustion  — 

31 

3 

17 

39 

2 

14 

Ditto 

17 

47 

M 

Maniacal  Exhaustion*** 

1 

4 

7 

1 

6 

7 

Ditto 

18 

43 

M 

General  Paralysis  — . — 

5 

0 

5 

8 

Ditto 

19 

64 

F 

Gradual  Exhaustion  *** 

17 

1 

10 

Senile  Mania 

20 

47 

F 

Exhaustion  ***. — — *** 

1 

1 

4 

1 

5 

0 

Mania 

21 

41 

M 

Paralysis  *** — ********* 

9 

9 

10 

16 

Melancholia 

22 

73 

M 

Serous  Apoplexy  — *** 

8 

14 

8 

Mania 

23 

66 

F 

Gradual  Exhaustion  — 

7 

0 

11 

7 

0 

25 

Ditto 

24 

82 

F 

Senile  Exhaustion — *** 

11 

1 

7 

0 

Ditto 

25 

50 

F 

Gradual  Exhaustion  *** 

7 

1 

4 

Di!|to 

26 

59 

M 

Spontaneous  Erysipelas 

1 

5 

2 

19 

Ditto 

27 

60 

M 

General  Paralysis  ****** 

2 

0 

6 

2 

1 

6 

Melancholia 

28 

75 

F 

Gradual  Exhaustion  *** 

15 

2 

3 

15 

6 

a 

o 

Mania 

29 

75 

M 

Paralysis  **.**.. — ****** 

2 

18 

1 

2 

18 

Ditto 

30 

55 

F 

Gradual  Exhaustion  *** 

20 

4 

4 

22 

5 

4 

Ditto 

31 

64 

F 

Diarrhoea  ****** - *** 

1 

10 

4 

10 

Ditto 

32 

30 

M 

bcro fu  I  ci  -vw*  w%  wv  w*  w% 

i 

5 

7 

8 

4 

7 

Imbecility 

33 

70 

M 

Old  Age,  Infirmity  *** 

1 

2 

0 

1 

2 

14 

Mania 

34 

51 

M 

Paralysis  — *** - - 

4 

9 

10 

9  Ditto 

35 

70 

F 

Senile  Exhaustion****** 

30 

8 

14 

31 

2 

14lDitto 

36 

63 

F 

Spontaneous  Erysipelas 

9 

9 

4 

10 

0 

4  Ditto 

37 

70 

M 

Maniacal  Exhaustion**. 

22 

1 

15  Ditto 

38 

94 

M 

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DIET  TABLE  OF  THE  SUFFOLK  LUNATIC  ASYLUM. 

December  31,  1860. 


24 


SUPPER. 

Females. 

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oz. 

12' 

12 

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CO 

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males. 

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DAYS  OF 

THE  WEEK. 

!  Sunday  . 

Monday  . 

Tuesday  . . 

Wednesday  ........ 

Thursday  . . 

Friday  . . 

Saturday . 

Total.  ..... 

The  Gruel  is  made  in  the  following  proportions,  viz : — lOlbs.  of  Gioats  to  6  gallons  of  Milk  for  100  Patients. 
Soup  is  thickened  with  Peas,  Pearl  Barley,  Rice,  and  Vegetables. 

Tea  lib.  Sugar  41b.  Milk  3  gallons  for  100  Patients. 

The  Patients  employed,  both  Males  and  Females,  have  full  generous  diet. 

Dietetic  regulations  are  subject  to  Medical  opinion. 


FARM  AND  GARDEN  ACCOUNT, 

In  the  year  1860. 


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26 


No.  13. 

CONTRACT  PRICES, 


For  the  year  ending  23rd.  December,  I860, 


1st 

2nd. 

3rd. 

4  th. 

Quarter 

Quarter. 

Quarter. 

Quarter. 

s. 

d. 

s. 

d. 

s. 

d. 

S. 

d.  ] 

Beef,  good  Steer,  by  side 

1 

i 

.  cwt. 

49 

0 

44 

0 

54 

0 

54 

0  1 

Wether  Mutton,  by  side 

or  carcase . lb. 

Bread,  per  loaf,  41b.  4oz. 

6f 

7 

7 

18  hours  baked . 

5 

H 

7 

6! 

Flour,  seconds  ....  sack 

32 

0 

34 

0 

44 

0 

52 

0 

Malt  . coomb. 

Hops,  genuine  English 

34 

0 

33 

0 

33 

9 

35 

0 

growth  . . cwt. 

84 

0 

58 

0 

66 

0 

140 

0 

Sugar,  loaf  . lb. 

5f 

5f 

5f 

„  soft,  good  .  .  cwt 

34 

0 

34 

0 

36 

0 

38 

0 

Molasses  or  Treacle,  cwt. 

12 

0 

15 

0 

14 

0 

13 

0 

Vinegar  . gallon 

1 

0 

1 

6 

1 

5 

1 

6 

Soap,  good . cwt. 

28 

0 

28 

0 

27 

0 

28 

0 

,,  soft,  firkin  641bs.  net 

13 

0 

13 

6 

13 

6 

13 

0 

Cheese,  Edam,  good,  cwt. 

57 

0 

58 

0 

52 

0 

50 

0 

,,  Derby  ....cwt. 

70 

0 

74 

0 

72 

0 

72 

0 

Groats . . cwt. 

15 

0 

15 

6 

19 

0 

19 

0 

Peas,  boilers  .  . .  .bushel 
Best  Firkin  Butter  of  56 

5 

0 

5 

0 

5 

3 

5 

0 

lbs.  net . firkin 

56 

0 

52 

0 

49 

0 

52 

0 

Tobacco,  shag  .....  ,1b. 

3 

2 

3 

2 

3 

2 

3 

2 

Snuff . .  .lb. 

3 

0 

3 

0 

3 

0 

3 

0 

Candles  . dozen 

6 

0 

6 

0 

6 

2 

6 

0 

Pearl  Ash  . cwt. 

32 

0 

34 

0 

37 

0 

34 

0 

Soda,  good . cwt. 

6 

0 

6 

0 

5 

9 

6 

0 

Best  Stone  Blue  ...  .lb. 

1 

0 

1 

0 

n| 

1 

0 

Best  Starch  .......  .lb. 

4i 

41 

H 

44 

Pepper  .  £  . . lb. 

1 

0 

1 

0 

1 

0 

1 

0 

Mustard  . lb, 

6 

6 

6 

6 

Carolina  Rice . cwt. 

Wheat  Straw  in  Trusses 

20 

0 

20 

0 

18 

3 

20 

0 

.  cwt. 

2 

6 

2 

6 

2 

6 

2 

3 

Brush  Wood  Fagots,  60 

fagots  to  the  load  .... 
Coals,  best  Wallsend, 

19 

6 

19 

6 

19 

6 

19 

6 

screened  . ton 

Ditto,  best  Inland,  ditto 

23 

0 

23 

0 

23 

0 

23 

6 

. . . ton 

18 

0 

18 

0 

18 

0 

18 

6 

Ditto  Blyth . ton 

17 

0 

17 

0 

17 

0 

17 

6 

Welsh  Stone . .  ton 

30 

0 

30 

0 

30 

0 

30 

0 

Cinders  . chal. 

18 

0 

18 

0 

16 

0 

18 

0 

27 


No.  14. 

TABLE  SHEWING  THE  WEEKLY  AND  ANNUAL 
CHARGE  FOR  EACH  PATIENT,  SINCE  THE 
ASYLUM  OPENED. 


Years. 

'1st. 

Quarter. 

Per  Week. 

2nd. 
Quarter. 
Per  Week. 

3rd. 

Quarter. 

Per  Week. 

4  th. 

Quarter. 

Per  Week. 

Annual 

Charges. 

— . 

S. 

S. 

S. 

S. 

£. 

s. 

d. 

1829 

12 

2 

8 

2 

7 

0 

8 

2 

22 

19 

10 

1830 

7 

7 

6 

5 

5 

3 

7 

0 

17 

1 

3 

1831 

7 

0 

7 

7 

5 

10 

7 

0 

17 

16 

5 

1832 

6 

5 

5 

10 

5 

10 

5 

10 

15 

10 

11 

1833 

5 

10 

5 

10 

5 

3 

5 

10 

14 

15 

9 

1834 

5 

10 

5 

3 

5 

10 

5 

10 

14 

15 

9 

1835 

7 

0 

5 

3 

4 

8 

5 

10 

14 

15 

9 

1836 

5 

10 

5 

3 

5 

10 

5 

10 

14 

15 

9 

1837 

7 

0 

5 

10 

5 

10 

5 

10 

15 

18 

6 

1838 

6 

5 

5 

10 

5 

10 

6 

5 

15 

18 

6 

1839 

7 

0 

6 

5 

5 

10 

6 

5 

16 

13 

8 

1840 

7 

0 

6 

5 

6 

5 

7 

0 

17 

8 

10 

1841 

7 

0 

6 

5 

6 

5 

7 

0 

17 

8 

10 

1842 

7 

0 

6 

5 

5 

10 

6 

5 

16 

13 

8 

1843 

6 

5 

5 

10 

5 

10 

6 

5 

15 

18 

6 

1844 

6 

5 

6 

5 

6 

5 

6 

5 

16 

13 

8 

1845 

7 

0 

6 

5 

5 

10 

6 

5 

16 

13 

8 

1846 

7 

0 

7 

0 

6 

5 

7 

7 

18 

4 

0 

1847 

7 

7 

8 

2 

8 

9 

7 

7 

20 

17 

1 

1848 

8 

2 

8 

2 

8 

2 

8 

9 

21 

12 

3 

1849 

7 

7 

5 

3 

5 

10 

6 

5 

16 

6 

1 

1850 

7 

0 

5 

10 

5 

10 

6 

5 

16 

6 

1 

1851 

5 

10 

5 

3 

5 

3 

6 

5 

14 

15 

9 

1852 

6 

5 

6 

5 

6 

5 

6 

5 

16 

13 

8 

1853 

7 

0 

7 

0 

7 

0 

7 

10± 

18 

15 

41 

1854 

8 

6 

8 

0 

8 

0 

8 

9 

21 

12 

3 

1855 

8 

9 

8 

9 

8 

9 

8 

9 

22 

15 

6 

1856 

8 

9 

8 

9 

8 

0 

7 

6 

21 

9 

0 

1857 

8 

3 

8 

0 

8 

3 

8 

6 

21 

9 

0 

1858 

8 

3 

8 

0 

7 

6 

7 

6 

20 

6 

3 

1859 

7 

6 

7 

6 

7 

6 

8 

6 

20 

3 

0 

1800 

9 

6 

8 

6 

8 

6 

8 

6 

22 

15 

0  | 

28 


No. 

AN  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  RECEIPTS  AND 

Under  16  and  1 7  Vic.  c.  97.  sec.  38 


RECEIPTS. 


1860* 

£. 

s. 

d. 

To  Overpaid  by  Beccles  last  year  . 

33 

1 

2 

„  Balance  forward  . 

7 

4 

Jan.  1. 

,,  Beccles  ..... 

46 

11 

9 

„  Woodbridge 

38 

16 

5 

17. 

,,  Bury  ..... 

77 

12 

10 

.  Ipswich  .... 

69 

17 

6 

£233  5  10 


29- 


15. 

DISBURSEMENTS  FOR  REPAIRS,  &c. 


from  January  to  December,  1860. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

1860. 

£. 

s. 

d. 

Feb.  By  paid  Sharpin,  cash  overpaid  by 

Beccles  ..... 

33 

1 

2 

Hubbock,  Paint  .... 

12 

5 

9 

Culham,  Braziery  .... 

4 

12 

9 

Cook,  Bricks,  Tiles, 

8 

16 

0 

Chaplain’s  Clerk,  &c. 

1 

5 

0 

Grimwood,  Deals,  Slates,  &c. 

43 

17 

6 

Dale,  Stonemason’s  Work 

14 

3 

1 

Clarke,  Carpenter’s  Work 

17 

12 

6 

Girling,  Land  Tax  . 

2 

4 

0 

Page  &  Girling,  Ironfoundry  Work 
Chaplain’s  Salary  .... 

31 

12 

9 

15 

0 

0 

Thompson  &  Bennington,  lame 

5 

15 

6 

Loder,  Stationery  and  Printing 

13 

1 

4 

Silver,  Ironmongery  Goods  . 

Smith,  Bricklayer’s  Work 

6 

5 

4 

10 

8 

0 

Borton,  \  year’s  Salary 

12 

10 

0 

Ditto,  Postages  .... 

4 

4 

0 

Allen,  Paint  .... 

8 

7 

9 

Ditto,  Plumbing,  Glazing,  &c.  . 

20 

17 

4 

£ 

232 

18 

7 

30 


No.  15. 


RECEIPTS. 


1860. 

£. 

s. 

d. 

To  Amount  forward 

.  233 

5 

10 

March  28.  ,,  Bury  . 

73 

0 

8 

,,  Woodbridge 

.  42 

6 

5 

29.  ,,  Beccles 

42 

6 

5 

April  4.  „  Ipswich  . 

.  42 

6 

5 

£433  5  9 


continued . 


""  “ . —  ■ 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

1860. 

£. 

s. 

d. 

Amount  forward 

232 

18 

w 

( 

April. 

Loder,  Stationery  and  Printing 

Smith,  Bricklayer’s  Work 

Chaplain’s  Clerk,  &c.  . 

26 

17 

11 

7 

11 

5 

* 

i 

5 

0 

Chaplain’s  Salary  . 

15 

0 

0 

Silver,  Ironmongery 

8 

1 

1 

Allen,  Plumbing,  Glazing,  &c. 

17 

1 

8 

Page  &  Girling,  Ironfoundry  Work 

20 

0 

6 

Clarke,  Carpenter’s  Work 

10 

17 

6 

Pizey,  Postage  and  Receipt  Stamps, 

Bankers  Check  Books,  &c. 

5 

12 

6 

Grinvwood,  Deals,  &c. 

24 

15 

8 

Moulton,  Advertisements 

3 

8 

0 

Fisher,  Sand  and  Carting 

Borton,  Salary  .  .  12  10  0 

7 

0 

6 

Extra  Meeting  .  .  10  10  0 

Ditto  Charges  .  .  12  16  2 

35 

16 

o 

XJ 

£416 

6 

6 

32 


No.  15 , 


RECEIPTS. 


1860. 

£. 

s. 

d. 

To  Amount  forward  - 

-  433 

5 

9 

Julv  11. 

tf 

,,  Ipswich 

190 

8 

9 

16* 

„  Bury  - 

-  109 

11 

3 

£733  5  9 


33 


« continued . 


DISBUSEMENTS. 

1860. 

£. 

s. 

cl 

Amount  forward 

-  416 

6 

6 

July. 

Cook,  Bricks,  Tiles,  and  Pipes 

29 

13 

3 

Girling,  Land  Tax  - 

-  2 

4 

0 

Page  &  Girling,  Ironfoundry  Work 

24 

16 

11 

Culham,  Repairing  Coppers 

-  6 

15 

9 

Loder,  Stationery  and  Printing 

15 

7 

4 

Allen,  Plumbing,  Glazing,  &c. 

-  24 

8 

3 

Clarke,  Carpenter’s  Work 

17 

11 

9 

Dale,  Stonemason’s  Work 

9 

15 

0 

Hughes,  Chaplain’s  Salary  - 

15 

0 

0 

Thompson  &  Bennington,  Lime 

6 

16 

6 

Grimwood,  Deals,  Timber,  Slates 

61 

5 

0 

Blowers,  Whitening 

1 

13 

0 

Silver,  Ironmongery  Goods  - 

10 

2 

11 

Fisher,  Sand  and  Carting 

1 

6 

0 

Smith,  Bricklayer’s  Work 

18 

6 

11 

Chaplain’s  Clerk,  &c. 

1 

5 

0 

Gall,  Paint,  Varnish,  &c. 

20 

7 

5 

Borton,  J  year’s  Salary  - 

-  12 

10 

0 

£695 

11 

6 

34 


No.  15. 


RECEIPTS. 


1860.  £.  $.  d. 

To  Amount  forward  -  -  -  73359 

Oct.  27.  ,,  Bury  -  131  9  3 

Nov.  14.  „  Gross,  Ipswich  or  Eastern 

Division  -  228  10  10 


£  1093  5  10 


35 


continued. 


I  DISBURSEMENTS. 


1860. 

£. 

s. 

d. 

Amount  forward 

69  5 

11 

6 

Cook,  Bricks,  Tiles,  &c. 

58 

14 

1 

Page  &  Girling,  Ironfoundry  Works  - 

42 

13 

0 

Culham,  Braziery,  Zinc,  &c. 

7 

9 

10 

Allen,  Plumbing,  Glazing,  & c. 

18 

16 

6 

Silver,  Ironmongery  Goods 

13 

12 

1 

Fisher,  Sand  and  Carting 

8 

0 

0 

Thompson  &  Bennington,  Lime 

7 

17 

6 

Loder,  Stationery  and  Printing 

10 

14 

0 

Grimwood,  Deals,  &c. 

48 

15 

9 

Carson,  Paint  - 

5 

0 

0 

Pizey,  Postage  and  Receipt  Stamps, 

Check  Books,  &c.  - 

3 

14 

6 

Chaplain’s  Clerk,  &c.  - 

1 

5 

0 

Hughes,  Chaplain’s  Salary 

15 

0 

0 

Smith,  Bricklayer’s  Work 

25 

1 

0 

Borton,  July  Meeting  10  10  0 

„  \  year’s  Salary  12  10  0 

23 

0 

0 

Dale,  Stonemason’s  Work 

14 

4 

3 

Clarke,  Carpenter’s  Work 

10 

10 

6 

Moulton,  Advertisements 

1 

1 

6 

Cook,  Asphalting  - 

6 

4 

11 

Gall,  Oil . 

13 

10 

3 

Total  Expenditure  for  the  Year  -  1030 

16 

2 

Balance  in  Bank  - 

62 

9 

8 

£  1093 

5 

10 

-  --  - « 

GENERAL  STATEMENT  OF  RECEIPTS  AND  EXPENDITURE  BY  THE  HOUSE  COMMITTEE 

OF  THE  SUFFOLK  COUNTY  LUNATIC  ASYLUM. 

_ _ For  the  year  ending  December  31st.  i860. 


36 


37 


No.  17. 

HEADS  OF  EXPENDITURE. 


Ending-  December  1860. 


Meat,  lbs . . . 

Bread,  loaves  4jlbs.  each. . . . 

Flour,  sts . 

Butter,  lbs . . 

Oatmeal,  lbs . 

Tea  and  Coffee  . . . 

Cheese,  lbs.  . . . 

Soap,  Pearlash,  Soda,  and 

Blue,  lbs . . . 

Grocery . . . . 

Candles,  lbs . 

Coals,  tons  . 

Wood,  loads . 

Medicines,  Wine,  and  Spirits 

Table  Beer  and  Porter . . 

Clothing  and  Linen  ........ 

Sundries  . . 

Salaries  and  Wages . 

Tradesmen’s  Bills . 


£. 

s. 

d. 

48754 

1100 

16 

1 

33076 

j 

831 

5 

6 

1420 

1 

142 

16 

0 

3116 

145 

12 

4 

8901 

78 

2 

7 

538 

111 

0 

0 

8669 

\ 

220 

6 

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HENRY  PIZEY,  Clerk. 
GEORGE  DURRANT,  Steward. 


