Seventeenth annual report, for 1875 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1876
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Credit: Seventeenth annual report, for 1875 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The weekly rate of maintenance has remained at 9s. 6d. per patient. The farm continues to improve in cultivation and produc¬ tiveness, and the accounts, which cannot he made up finally till the end of the year, show a satisfactory balance. Owing to the presence of iron in the water derived from the Asylum well, the mains throughout the building were found to be choked with the red oxide, and considerable expense has been incurred in replacing them with pipes of a larger bore. The Committee, after a careful consideration of the question of the water supply, which had formed a subject of frequent complaint ever since the opening of the Asylum, determined to call in the assistance of Messrs. Eastons and Anderson, at whose recommendation two large reservoirs have been formed with a view to the aeration of the water, and the consequent precipitation of the iron in solution, before pumping the water up to the main tanks in the towers of the building. Owing to the subsoil (aftercon¬ siderable progress had been made in the works) having proved in places to be of a porous and springy character, great diffi¬ culty has been experienced in making these reservoirs water¬ tight, and the new system is consequently not as yet in opera¬ tion. Two of the Visiting Commissioners in Lunacy inspected the Asylum minutely during February the fourth and fifth, and left a very favourable report, which is published in the Appendix. The Committee continue to entertain a high sense of the value of the services rendered to the County by Dr. Williams in his able discharge of the duties devolving upon him as