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

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Rainhill.
Date:
1852
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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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    sufficient quantity is manufactured on the premises, both for cooking purposes and for the supply of above nine hundred lights, which are used in the establishment. The steam-engine, which is of ten-horse power, is princi¬ pally employed pumping water out of the well, and forcing it into large iron tanks, situated in each tower; it also drives a circular saw. The boiler is of twenty-horse, high pressure, the surplus steam being used for heating the water in the tanks for washing, and also for cooking purposes. The engineer’s department has been so arranged, that one man, with the assistance of a stoker and three patients, can do all that is required for the supply of gas, water, &c., to the entire building. Water Well. The whole Asylum is abundantly supplied with water, an analysis of which is subjoined. One gallon imperial, or 70,000 grains of the water, con¬ tains— Grains. Sulphate of Lime. 1*3 Do. Magnesia. 2‘5 Chloride of do.,. 15 Do. of Calcium. ’6 Chloride of Sodium. 3'6 Earthy Phosphates, containing Iron. 1*8 Silica . *5 Organic Matter. *3 Chapel. The chapel is detached, being placed in front of the centre