Forty-first annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics, submitted, in terms of their charter, to general meeting of contributors, 13th January, 1855.

  • Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Forty-first annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics, submitted, in terms of their charter, to general meeting of contributors, 13th January, 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fied with these, the whole were finished under the eye of the Master of Works, and in a tradesman-like manner. These plans, it may be explained, also included a Dead- house, which has been erected upon the most convenient spot for the purpose. The total cost of the whole was £171. In consequence of the faulty construction of a smoke- flue, proceeding from one of the boilers in the West House, and a likelihood of fire being the result, the whole was taken down, and properly and substantially rebuilt at a cost of £59. The Directors also ordered expensive and important alterations upon the interior of the house itself, so that a greater number of Patients of a particular class might be better accommodated, and each have a separate sleeping - room. Easy chairs, for invalids and others, sofas, presses, &c. &c. were also ordered to be made by the Asylum joiners, and are now in constant use. They also caused all the window-frames of the Institution to be painted; and several of the rooms and galleries in the West House were repapered and repainted, and the car¬ peting renewed. It need scarcely be remarked that, from the window-frames having been repainted, a much more cheerful aspect is given to the Asylum, and that the paint keeps the iron and wood-work in a much better state of preservation. In the course of the year, the East House was all lime-washed, and part of it twice over, at much expense; but the Directors are convinced, that until the walls are properly boarded up, to prevent the paint from being rubbed off by the Patients coming in contact with it, the interior will never look well. In the meantime, nothing but the want of funds, and the heavy debt under which the Institution labours, prevents this, and many other most important alterations and additions, from being effected.