State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum : with a plan of the building and grounds, and of the alterations in progress.

  • Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (Lincoln, England)
Date:
[1828]
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Credit: State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum : with a plan of the building and grounds, and of the alterations in progress. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    By the former Rules a Benefaction of twenty guineas at a single payment, constituted a IjiFii Governor ; by a new Rule, Benefactors increasing their former donations to twenty guineas at a second payment, acquire the same privilege: a change which, it is expected, will be the means of adding to the funds, and of introducing many active and intelligent Gentlemen into the management. Some privilege might be usefully conferred upon Govern- ors recommending Patients at the commencement of their malady; the hope of cure depending almost wholly upon proper treatment, before any organic change has had time to take place. A very important benefit has been derived to the Asylum, during the last year, by a successful attempt, which has been made for the procuring of water. Even the sparing use of an article so essential to health, cleanliness, and comfort, has occasionally cost this Institution as much as £4, per week. Whereas the supply is now unbounded, and of the best quality. Instead of the irregular publication, which has hitherto taken place, an order has been made for laying annually before the Governors an abstract of the Receipts and Expenditure, a list of the Benefactors and Subscribers, an account of the Patients, and a general Report upon the condition and prospects of the Institution. YARBOROUGH, President. Lincoln, April 1828.