Eleventh annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ended 31st December, 1881 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.

  • Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1882?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Eleventh annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ended 31st December, 1881 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Establishment consists of:— t A Medical Superintendent A Chaplain * An Assistant Medical Officer A Clerk to the Visitors A Steward and Clerk of the Asylum * A Housekeeper t A Farm Bailiff t An Engineer Two Carpenters t A Gardener A Baker and Storekeeper An Assistant Baker t A Gasman Two Stokers * Attendants (Shoemaker included) ... * In-door Servants Out-door ditto . Total M. F. TOTAL. - 5 1 6 mJ “N ► 10 0 10 > • • • 22 24 46 • «# • 1 7 8 ... 9 0 9 • • • 47 32 79 * Resident, with, board. t Resident only. The weekly charge for Maintenance has been 11s. throughout the year. The Extensions to the Asylum being now com¬ pleted, and almost every claim in respect of them satisfied, it is desirable that the Committee should briefly recount the conduct and cost of them. The proceedings for the original Asylum were com¬ menced in 1867, but there had been much preliminary discussion about them in previous years. By the 21st of November, 1871, all the patients for whom the Asylum was built were in it. Some patients bad been admitted on the 30th of September, 1870. In December, 1871, the then Committee reported somewhat fully on the new Asylum. In 1874 an addition to the Churchyard at Cholsey, where many patients who die at the Asylum are