Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1861
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    suggestions made by them, he prepared new plans for the enlargement of the Asylum, which were laid before the General Court of Quarter Sessions, held at lleigatc on the 3rd of April, 1860, and were approved; and it was ordered, that on their receiving the further approval of the Secretary of State as required by the Statute the 16th and 17th Vic. cap. 97, they should be carried out. This further approval was not obtained. It was withheld on the ground that the Secretary of State objected to any enlargement of the building upon the existing site; but he informed the Committee, that subject to the purchase and hiring of the land as proposed in 1858 being sanctioned by the Justices at Quarter Session and completed, he would approve of the plans for the additional Buildings as last submitted and amended in accordance with the recommendations of the Commissioners in Lunacy; the Land to be hired to be used solely for the occupation of the Patients, and not for building purposes.