Report of the superintendent of the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum, Rainhill : instituted January 1, 1852.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Rainhill.
Date:
1852
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the superintendent of the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum, Rainhill : instituted January 1, 1852. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Baths. Each ward is supplied with hot, cold, shower baths, a lavatory, two water-closets and a slop-room, which are situated at one end of the gallery, and in immediate proximity to each other. Kitchen. The kitchen is two stories in height, centrally placed, and is surrounded by numerous offices, such as the general stores, steward’s office, bakehouse, bread-room, larder, dairy, potato store, scullery, &c. The whole of the cooking is carried on by means of two gas stoves and several boilers, supplied with steam from the engine house. The gas stoves will easily cook for from two hundred and fifty to three hundred persons, forming a convenient and economical apparatus for the purpose. From each of the de¬ tached blocks and wings there is a basement passage, com¬ municating with separate serving-places on each side of the kitchen. Workshops. Numerous workshops are provided for the different trades and occupations; such as tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, painters, plumbers and glaziers, tinmen, upholsterers, &c. Engine, Gas-house. In a convenient position, at the back of the building, are placed the engine-house, gas-works, and smithy. Of gas a