The sixty-fourth report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1882.

  • Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum (Stafford, England)
Date:
[1883]
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Credit: The sixty-fourth report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1882. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at Carmarthen, showing an increase of 13 during the year. The Asylum at Stafford is full, but there are vacancies at Burntwood for about 18 patients. In May last your Committee entered into an agree¬ ment with the Stafford Corporation for the construction of a pipe sewer to carry off all top water and house washings from the Sandyford Bridge to the Eastgates, the Corporation not to allow the introduction of sewerage or other offensive matter to pollute the brook, your Com¬ mittee agreeing to pay £200 towards the cost; this it is hoped will make an improvement in the general drainage of the Asylum. The Corporation is also to allow all slop water from the old and new buildings to enter the sewer on the payment of £10 per year, this will to a great extent relieve the meadows from being water-logged. At the October Sessions an application from the Rector of Stafford for the purchase of J of an acre of land in the Lammascote road was referred to your Committee, your Committee see no objection to the sale, the price to be at the rate of £300 per acre, subject to the approval of the Court. The County Surveyor reports the buildings generally to be in good repair. The female block, and the buildings adjoining the epileptic and suicidal wards, have been covered in some time; the male block is covered in ; the plasterers and joiners are at work on the interior. During the progress of the work several necessary additions and alterations have occurred which did not come under the original contract—viz., the fencing and planting of the boundary; the laying down of fire hydrants (a sum of £921 was granted for this at the April Sessions, 1878, but the amount was not raised in consequence of present additions being contemplated); another foul linen washhouse and dryery. Your Committee have not