Twenty-ninth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Twenty-ninth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    necessary. Bat replies have been received from most of the Unions expressing their inability to entertain the scheme- It should also be stated that the Local Government Board, whose consent is required by Act of Parliament, intimated in reply to a letter addressed to them on the subject, that having referred it to their Inspector (Mr. Longe) they had been advised that there is not at present any Workhouse in Worcestershire where the arrangements would permit of harmless chronic Lunatics being maintained therein, or where the requirements which the Commissioners in Lunacy deemed necessary for insuring the proper care and treatment of such Patients could be complied with. Under these circumstances the Committee were compelled to abandon the idea of sending any Patients to the Work- houses, and no alternative appears to be left but to provide additional accommodation by the erection of new buildings. It is their intention to have a Special Meeting summoned, for the purpose of finally considering the question, early in the year. It should be understood that, whereas the number o^ Patients in the Asylum at the last visit of the House Committee was 791, the Asylum really contains proper accommodation for 750 only, according to the prescribed rules as regards space, &c. In the course of the year the Committee’s attention was again drawn to the fire extinguishing appliances, and they thought it right to provide some additional extincteurs, and two new hydrants, which have been fixed in convenient positions. They also greatly increased the supply of water and means of distributing it. The Fire Brigade is frequently drilled and always ready for action. It may be added that the supply of water will, it is believed, now be quite ample in case of necessity in dealing with fire. The Committee feared that it would be necessary to provide a new tank, to hold between 49 and 50 thousand gallons of water for this purpose, but, on the