Twenty-ninth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1880.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1881?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Twenty-ninth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1880. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (2) Conversion of old Brew-House and room above into a commodious, well-lighted, and well-ventilated Tailor’s Workshop and Store-room. This is a great improvement upon the old Tailor’s Workshop, and more easy of access. (3) Ventilation of Recreation and Dining Hall greatly im¬ proved by means of five openings in ceiling, communicating with vitiated air channels leading to the Clock Tower, and by means of six Tobin’s Tubes fixed in side walls for the ingress of fresh air, as suggested by the County Surveyor. (4) Warming of Recreation and Dining Hall greatly improved by means of two coils of pipes enclosed in ornamental iron cases and heated by steam, as suggested by the County Surveyor. (5) Alteration of the fixed Bedroom and Scullery Windows in Nos. 1 and 6 Male and Female Wards, so as to make them to open for the purpose of proper airing and ventilation. (6) Thick glass panels have been fixed in Nos. 1 and 6 Male and Female Ward doors, to give light to the passage leading out of these Wards and to facilitate inspection. (7) Conversion of Tailor’s old Store-room into two Bedrooms with fire-places, for the House Porter and Stoker. (8) Conversion of Shoemaker’s Bedroom and room adjoining into two Bedrooms with fire-places, for Female Servants, by which arrangement two rooms have been gained in the Female Wards, making an addition of two beds to the Female division. (9) Conversion of Shoemaker’s old Workshop into a Store¬ room for the Female department. (10) Cemetery Paths have been Asphalted. On 11th June the Asylum was Inspected by two oi the Commissioners in Lunacy, whose Report is appended.