Twenty-first annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • St. John's Hospital (Stone, Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
[1874]
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Credit: Twenty-first annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Uticfes (to tmt) ♦—To Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace assembled at the General Quarter Session' of the Peace, to be holden at Aylesbury, in and for the said County, on Monday^ the 5th daij of January, 1874. THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS ELECTED AT THE EPIPHANY SESSION, 1873, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE LUNATIC ASYLUM AT STONE, FOR THE PAUPER LUNATICS OF THE COUNTY, UNDER THE STATUTE 16th AND 17th VICT., CAP. 97, ss. 22 and 62. SHEWETH,—That your Committee Report, in the terms of the Statute, that the “ State and Condition” of the Asylum have been satisfactory throughout the year, and the accommodation is sufficient and proper for the number of Patients. The conduct and efficiency of the several Officers and Servants are satisfactory ; but there have been two changes in the course of the past year in the Office of Assistant Medical Officer, Dr. Alexander having resigned the office in May last, and Mr. Arthur D. Kerr, who was appointee in his stead, having remained in the service of the County only from the 28th of June last until the 3rd of October following, and Mr. George Henry Dodsworth was, on the 20th November last, appointed at the Salary of £1 00 per annum with Rations and Apartments in the Asylum