Twenty-second annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted in terms of their charter to a general meeting of the directors, 20th June, 1842.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Twenty-second annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted in terms of their charter to a general meeting of the directors, 20th June, 1842. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    turnpike road. During some part of the day there are few who are not engaged in some way or other. The following table will serve to illustrate what we have already stated :— NUMBER GENERALLY EMPLOYED, 1841-42. Males. ( Females. Total. Weaving linen for sheeting, cotton bagging, &c. 13 5 18 Picking oakum, &c. ...... 15 0 Tailoring and mat-making, .... 2 0 2 Cutting firewood, ...... 1 0 1 Mangling clothes, ..... 1 0 1 Pumping water for the use of the Establishment, 8 0 8 Breaking metal for the roads, and gardening, trenching, and laying out ground, &c. . 20 12 32 Domestic purposes,. Shoemaking and mending, .... 1 0 1 1 0 1 Clerks, . 1 0 1 Bird-cage makers, &c.. 1 0 1 Grooms, ....... 1 0 1 Wrights or joiners, ...... 1 0 1 Washing in wash-house at machine. 2 0 -- ? Dressmaking, ....... 0 1 1 Spinning, ....... 0 10 n 10 Winding for weavers,. 0 6 6 Knitting,. 0 5 2. 5 Shirt-making,. 0 6 6 Netting, ....... 0 1 1 Upholsterers’ Work,. 0 1 1 Stav-making,. 0 1 1 Flowering muslins, . . . « 0 2 2 Repairing bedding and clothes, . . * 0 6 6 Worsted woi’ks, ...... 0 2 2 Assisting in laundry, ..... 0 4 4 “ in scullery,. 0 1 l “ in bed-rooms and wards, 0 6 6 Marking Clothes,. 0 1 1 Totcilj • • » • 68 o 1 S | 138 Ladies and Gentlemen not included in the above. 39 Webs of bagging wove, yards each. 14 Webs of osnaburg wove, ditto. 13 „ of padding wove, ditto. 99 „ of sheeting wove, ditto. 9 Cwt. 0 qrs, 6 lb. oakum picked. 35 Pairs trousers made, in addition to many mended, 25 Waistcoats ditto. 23 Coats and jackets ditto. 1 Pair drawers ditto. 70 Cart loads of stones broke for the roads. 14 Pairs leather shoes and boots made, in addition to many mended. 2 Sheeting aprons made. 1 Writing desk „ 2 Presses „ 2 Dozen shafts made. 7 Stools . „ 1 Set of tresses „ 2 Flower stands „ 3 Ladders „ 2 Troughs „ 2 Coal backets „ 1 Set Steps „ 4 Large airing court seats made. 3 Benches made. Prepared and fitted up about 35 yards of battened lining in the wards. Painted many of the doors, linings, win¬ dows, summer house, &c., exclusive of sundry repairs of all kinds for some months past. WORK DONE BY MALE LUNATICS, From April 1, 1841, to March 31, 1842. upwards of 100