The report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 27th of Dec., 1860 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1861
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Credit: The report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 27th of Dec., 1860 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    patients is taken into consideration, I do tliink we have every reason to congratulate ourselves upon our freedom from many such misfortunes. The new dining-room on the women’s side of the establishment, the erection of which you sanctioned some time since, has proved a great convenience to the two wards for thq, use of which it was designed, adding thereby to each ward an extra sitting-room, and relieving the inmates of much annoyance and trouble. About 150 take their daily meals in the room, but it is large enough to hold 20 or 30 more. The comforts of the patients have also been increased in other ways, especially by the construction of eight new water-closets and by the addition of several washing-rooms. Should you carry out the projected additions to the Asylum now under your consideration—part of whieh scheme is the con¬ version of the present wash-house and laundry into a large dining hall, &c., and the erection of a larger and more commodious laundry elsewhere,—I believe a considerable improvement would be effected in the arrangements of the Institution, and give, what is now so much required, a great increase to the accommodation for pauper Lunatics. The following is a copy of the report left by the Commissioners in Lunacy at their last visit: “Prestwick County Asylum, “16th November, 1860. “ There are this day 502 patients in the Asylum, of whom 240 are men, and 262 are women. Three of the women, however, have