Fortieth annual report of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1892, and financial statements, 1992-93.

  • County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Fortieth annual report of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1892, and financial statements, 1992-93. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL MEETINGS. Eobert Berkeley, Esq. 11 C. M. Berington, Esq. . 11 James Best, Esq. 11 John Brinton, Esq. 8 Eev. H. W. Coventry. 12 Harry E. Dixey, Esq., M.D. ... 4 G. W. Grosvenor, Esq. 8 A. E. Hudson, Esq. 8 C. Pelham Lane, Esq. 12 G. W. Eichards, Esq., M.D. ... 7 E. V. V. Wheeler, Esq. 4 Walter Holland, Esq. (Mayor of Worcester). 5 E. Smith Carington, Esq. 6 Herbert Caldicott, Esq. 8 Ernest Day, Esq. 9 HOUSE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. 5 4 5 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 6 4 Meetings of the several Sub-Committees have been held from time to time, as occasion required—the duties and responsi¬ bilities of the Engineering Sub-Committee having especially to be noticed. The House Committee have met according to the Statutory requirements. 6.—Most of the Unions within the County, as well as that of the City, have sent Deputations from their Boards, to visit the Asylum. The Eeports of these Deputations to their respective Boards, testify their sense of the care and attention which the Patients sent to the Asylum from the several Unions receive, and with the general management of the Institution. 7. —The rate of maintenance of Pauper Patients has been continued at 8s. 2d. per head per week. 8. —Two of the Commissioners in Lunacy paid their annual visit to the Asylum in the month of xApril last, and a copy of their Eeport is appended (Schedule 2). We regard this Eeport as being satisfactory. 9. —With regard to the additional accommodation which was referred to and dealt with at some length in our last Eeport, we anticipated that we should be in a position at this time to report the completion of the new Wards at the east end of the Annexe. We regret, however, that from various causes over which your Committee have no control, these Buildings are not yet quite ready for occupation ; their completion was retarded in the earlier part of the year by a somewhat prolonged frost, and later by a strike among the employes of the contractors who were engaged in carrying out the works. We now confidently expect that the new Wards will, early in the Spring, be ready for the reception of a number of Patients for whom proper accommodation is not provided in the existing