Annual report.

  • Newcastle upon Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. Newcastle City Asylum, July i8th, 1896. We have to-day visited this Asylum, and are able to give a very favourable report of the condition in which we found it. Of the suggestions made by our colleagues at their visit in November last, we find that easy chairs and sofas have been provided in several wards on the female side ; that a weekly fire drill for the nurses has been established, and fire buckets provided and placed in boxes in several of the dormitories ; that bookcases have been fixed in all the wards, and books provided in sufficient quantity; and that the floors of many of the day rooms, dormitories, and single rooms have been stained and varnished. In addition to these improvements, we find that a sup- plemental hospital ward for some eight patients on each side has been made by the conversion of dormitories, and that the dormitories of No. 5 male ward have been improved by the removal of the partition wall between these rooms and the passage. The recreation room for the female attendants has been re-furnished, and now looks bright and comfortable, and is, we are told, much frequented. There are to-day on the Asylum books 220 males and 252 female patients (total 472), while 30 males are boarded out at the Durham County Asylum, and 15 females in the Sunderland Borough Asylum. Since the above mentioned visit of our colleagues the