The fifteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1866 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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[1866]
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Credit: The fifteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1866 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Convalescent Home/’ forming a separate estab¬ lishment of a comfortable and home-like character, and occupied at present by 28 Female Patients, under the charge of 3 Nurses. II. A Turkish bath. III. A rustic Summer House in No. 3 Male Airing Court, and additional seats in the Airing Courts. IY. Additional Air Gratings and Ventilators. V. Cupboards in Female Wards. VI. Large windows in the walls dividing the galleries from the large dormitories of Male Wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and Female Wards 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. These windows, besides rendering tho centre of the galleries less dark, afford increased means of supervision. The former effect would be mate¬ rially promoted by an additional window in the side wall of each dormitory. VII. The removal, in some cases carried out, and in others in progress, of the walls between the Bath Rooms and Lavatories. VIII. Planting with trees of 1, 2, and 3 Male Airing Courts. Laying out with flower beds and draining Airing Court No. 3, and the formation of a turfed mound in No. 6. IX. New settees in Male Wards. X. A considerable addition to the framed prints in the W ards generally, including forty good engravings,