The first annual report of the committee for Clapton and Darenth Asylums for imbecile children to 31st December, 1875.

  • Metropolitan District Asylum at Clapton.
Date:
1876
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The first annual report of the committee for Clapton and Darenth Asylums for imbecile children to 31st December, 1875. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    School-rooms, Workshops, Recreation-room, &c., but on this scheme not being adopted, and the consideration of the whole question of the accommodation required for the several classes of Paupers under the care of the Managers being on the 10th October, 1874, referred to the General Purposes Committee, that Committee in a Report submitted on the 24th October, “fully concurring that the complete separation of the Children from the Adult Imbeciles is eminently desirable,” recommended the erection of an entirely distinct School building capable of providing* for the training and education of from 300 to 400 Children, and that it should be referred to this Committee to seek for a suitable site for the purpose; they further recommended that pending the erection of such proposed building, your Committee should be requested to search out temporary accommodation for the 250 Children then under the care of the Managers. To these recommendations the Managers and the Local Government Board agreed, and under the references thus made to them, your Committee at once took steps, in the first place for obtaining temporary accommodation in which they might more successfully carry on the scheme of education and training* than was possible in the Buildings at Hampstead, which were more¬ over, from the nature of their construction, by no means suitable for the retention of Children of so low a vitality as is generally to be found in this class. After inspecting the recently-erected Workhouse of the White¬ chapel Union in Bow Road, and the building at Clapton formerly used as the London Orphan Asylum, both of which were empty and to be obtained for the purpose, your Committee were of opinion that the latter building would be far more suitable, and accordingly, on the 19th December, 1874, the Managers, upon their recommendation, agreed, subject to the sanction of the Local Government Board, to rent the London Orphan Asylum building for a period of three years, at an annual rent of £1,200,