BENEVOLENCE. 
RETURN OF PATIENTS. 
Year. 
No. of Pa¬ 
tients on 
the 5th Jan. 
Admitted. 
Discharged 
recovered. 
Discharged 
relieved. 
Discharged 
harmless and 
incurable. 
Died. 
Total 
discharged 
and died. 
1830 
73 
87 
8 
i 
0 
5 
14 
1831 
110 
84 
36 
4 
2 
5 
47 
1832 
142 
81 
32 
5 
1 
11 
49 
1833 
143 
66 
42 
7 
3 
13 
65 
1834 
148 
74 
41 
6 
3 
19 
69 
1835 
147 
70 
43 
5 
4 
19 
71 
Infirmary. The funds arise from parliamentary grants, grand jury presentments, governors' 
subscriptions, and contingencies. 
The number of beds is 120. 
Donors of 20 guineas become life governors or governesses, and the lowest qualification for 
an annual governor is 3 guineas. The number of life governors is 22, and of governesses 7 : the 
number of annual governors is 31, and of governesses 3. 
Average annual income for 5 jmars, ending on the 5th of 
January, 1833, 
Expenditure fordo. 
£1475 15 lOf 
£14-56 10 0 
375 
33,954 
574 
Number of patients for do. .... 
Total number of rations issued to patients, in the year ending 
on the 5th January, 1833, .... 
Daily average number of patients, exclusively of paupers and 
lunatics, ...... 
Daily average cost for provisions and medicine for each 
patient, . . 
Do. do. including every item of expenditure, 
The actual number of lunatics and idiots on the 31st of December 1833 was 12, of which 2 
were born idiots, 2 epileptic, 1 a curable maniac, and 7 incurable maniacs. 
The patients are bound to adhere to the rules under penalty of expulsion. These prescribe 
strict subordination and decorum. No intercourse is allowed between the male and female wards, 
without the surgeon s permission, on whom also depend the privileges of going beyond the walls, 
and smoking in the wards. No game of chance is allowed, and convalescents are obliged to 
assist in nursetending, &c. 
4 id. 
9\d. 
The patients are expressly prohibited from conversing across the walls, resorting to the 
porter s lodge, or parting with any of their provisions ; and visitors are similarly prohibited from 
introducing provisions, under pain of permanent exclusion. 
The visiting days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, from 11 to 12, and a governor’s 
order must be produced. The surgeon, however, and the house steward, have a discretionary 
power of admitting at all times visitors from remote districts. 
This building was erected to replace an old poor-house, which, previously to 1806, occupied 
the site of the present fish and vegetable markets, but was deficient both in funds and accommo¬ 
dation. 
The officers, with their annual salaries, are as follows :— 
Surgeon, 
Apothecary, (with diet and lodging,) 
Steward, (with ditto,) . 
Matron, (with ditto,) . 
Gate and male lunatic keeper, . 
Female lunatic keeper 
Cook, (with diet,) 
4 other female servants, (each,) 
4 ditto, ditto, (each,) 
Barber, 
Messenger, 
£92 6 3 
30 0 0 
30 0 0 
14 0 0 
14 10 0 
8 0 0 
8 0 0 
6 0 0 
5 12 0 
5 0 0 
4 0 0 
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