The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-10 00:00:00

LUNATIC ASYLUM.

Patients admitted and discharged from Ist January, 1853, to
Ist January, 1854.
Number in the house, litiCured
January, 1853
Admitted from lit January, Friends' request, not im-
-1853, to Ist January, 1854 38 proved 1
Dead

In the houge, Ist January,
1854 6'

Average weekly number in the house, 60.
He might mention that this statement was much the
same as last year; and likewise that the ten who
had been discharged not perfectly cared, were all in a very
good state of bodily health. It should be known that
they had not gone out, that it was not the practice, at all
events, to send them out when they were ill.

LOCK HOSPITAL.
Patients admitted and discharged from the Lock Hospital,
from let of January, 1853, to the Ist of January, 1854 :
Patients in the house. January Ist, 1853 3B
Ditto admitted during the year
-443
t Cured
Relieved, and at own request
Discharged.. Sent to the Workhouse
Sent to the Penitentiary 1
Sent to the Benevolent House 7

Dead
In the house, January Ist, 1854

-.--443

Average weekly number, 42.

This was a considerable increase in all respects over last
year. Mr. North continued,:—Now, sir, with respect to
the accounts, I can only repeat, what I have always had
to say, that the early time for which our meeting is fixed
renders it totally impossible to make up the accounts. I
can, however, give an approximation. The donations
have been £403 Os. ed. ; the legacies, £912 10s. 2d. • and
the church and chapel collections, £145 2s. 10d. That is
a large decrease over last year in both donations and
legacies, but last year they were large ' • both legacies and
donations were larger than they had been for two or
three years. As to the subscription-list lam able to give
a little better report than I could last year, but still not
by any means so good as I could wish. The subscription-
list, in 1852, amounted to £2,418 17s. 6d. There have
been received, in new subscriptions, £l4O 11s. 6d. ; in in-
creased subscriptions, £lB is.: against that there are set
off discontinuations £lo7lls. 6d., and reductions £3 3s.—
so that the total of the subscription list is only £47 18s.
over that of 1852, and it is still less than the list of 1845
by £376 15s. 6d. Amongst the discontinuations are two
large subscriptions, amounting together to £25. As to
the balance in hand, I cannot say exactly what it will
be. It will not be so much as last year. We will .
have a little on hand, but how much I cannot
make out. The expenses have, of course, been greater
than last year, and will be still greater this next.
The price of butchers' meat, flour, and various other
things will make a difference of perhaps £4OO. I wish to call
your attention to the increase of the subscription list, be-
cause, after all, it is upon that we must mainly, or in a great
measure, depend; and -I do so, the rather because at the
special meeting in July last, a grant was made of 45,000 out
of the principal fund, on account of alterations in the house.
The loss of this income of 45,000 has not been felt at all this
last year, but it will be felt in the next. Before I sit down,
I would wish just to say, that the committee are very glad to
End, very glad indeed, that the call they made twelve months
ago for the establishment of a permanent fund for the relief
of needy and deserving patients leaving the institution, has
been well responded to. I have received, in donations, .e 33,
and it is likely to prove a great blessing and advantage to the
inmates of the institution. (Applause.)
Mr. HARMOOD BANNER said, a resolution had been put
into his hands which it would be his duty to move. It was
that the accounts for the past year with the report be printed
and presented to the trustees and subscribers as soon as nrac-
ticable. He said, the general subscription list of a public in-
stitution scarcely loses less than five per cent. per annum.
Deaths occurred, removals took place, parties became unable
to subscribe where they had subscribed before; and he had
never known it less than five per cent., whilst it was frequently
considerably more. The treasurer, he was sure, must have
exerted himself considerably last year, or they should not now
have been in the position in which he had placed them,—for
it was gratifying after all, notwithstanding the diminution, that
they hand a balance in hand, and that they did not absolutely
commence another year in debt.
Mr. WM. CARSON seconded the motion, which was carried
unanimously. Mr. Carson then moved a vote of thanks to
Major Bourne, for accepting the office of president in the Past
year, and for his handsome donation of 100 guineas.
Thel motion was duly seconded, and passed by acclamation.
The CHAlnmi.pr aantnyletised the compliment.

On the motion of Mr. T. A. Hors, Mr. Charles Turner was
appointed president forthe ensuing year.
Mr. E. GissoN, junr.. in a very complimentary speech,
proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Alfred North, the treasurer,
and that he be requested to continue in office during the en •
suing year. (Applause.)
Mr. Joni: CROPPER seconded the motion, which was car-
ried by acclamation..
Mr. Was. Moss t hen. moved that the thanks of the meeting
be presented to the physicians and surgeons, and also the
consulting physicians•and surgeons, and that they be severally
re-appointed.
The CHAIRMAN WAS sure there could be no objection to
that.—Agreed to nevi. dir.
Mr. JOHN CROPPER moved that Mr. Robert Bicketsteth
be appointee consulting Burgeon to the institution. Mr.
Ilickersteth had retired in the spring of last year, and
he had now great pleasure in proposing his name as one of
the consulting surgeons, He was sure that no one deserved
it more than he did, after an unusual service of 42 years.—
The motion was carried by acclamation.
On the motion of Mr, Alan-rnsws, thanks were voted to the
Rev. W. H. Duck, for his important services as chaplain
during the past year;. and, on the motion of Mr. LAURENCE
PEEL, the committee for the past year were all re-appointed.
Mr. Hyrcnison said he had been requested to move a
resolution for an alteration in the seventh rule. It was one
of some importance in the management of the institution,
and was to the effect that after the words (speaking of the
medical care of the lunatic asylum) that the following words
be substituted :—" The office of physician to the lunatic
asylum shall, after vacancy. be filled by the physicians of the
infirmary, who shall succeed each other by seniority in bien-
nial rotation, and such physicians shall have charge of all
patients in the Lunatic Asylum, except such as may be placed
by their friends under the special care of any physician or
surgeon of the infirmary." Mr. Hutchison proceeded to
show that the present arrangement had not always existed.
The first alteration took place in 1826, and a subsequent one
in 1843. Although he was not entitled to say that the com-
mittee were unanimous with regard to the motion which he
had submitted. or that they were in any way dissatitfied with
the present arrangement ; yet, out of deference to the feelings
of many members, they had agreed to lay the proposition
before the general body of trustees.
Mr. CARSON seconded the motion, which was put and
carried.
The Rev. Mr. STEWART moved as an addition to the 16th
law:—"That no appointment of any officer having profes-
sional duties shall he made till he has satisfied the honorary
medical officers of his qualification for the post." Seconded
by Mr. Moss, and agreed to nem. con.
Mr. NORTH, the treasurer, said, that as the committee
were about to reprint the laws of the institution, there were
some verbal mistakes which required alteration, and he
moved a resolution, specifying these, and authorising their
correction.—Agreed to.
Resolutions were then passed that the medical school
attached to the institution should be called the Royal Infir-
mary School of Medicine; and that the anatomical museum
be under the management of the junior house-surgeon of the
infirmary as a curator.
A vote of thanks was passed by acclamation to the chair-
man; and this closed the proceedings.