The seventeenth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1874, with appendices.

  • Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1875]
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Credit: The seventeenth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1874, with appendices. 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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    “ Richard’s Circular-fronted Cooking Stove ” sub- stituted in its place, by which fuel will be econo- mised, and by means of a small Gas Stove added on either stove hot water can be supplied in the summer-time when a fire may be dispensed with. This Stove cost £44, exclusive of fixing, and appears to answer its purpose well. Other works In addition to the larger works above alluded to carried out by ° Asylum Artizans Asylum Artizans have, during the past year been engaged in restoring the Store Room floor and other repairs found necessary in consequence of the defective way the Asylum was originally constructed, which has caused and will cause a large outlay in repairs. Statistics of According to the Annual Returns furnished to Lunatics in the D . BoroughIsle and your Committee by Clerks to Guardians pursuant to ~ the Act, the following were the totals of lunatics and idiots chargeable to Unions in the County, Isle, and Borough on the 31st of December, 1813, viz. : In Asylums In Workhouses and with Friends... Males. Females. Totals. 122 148 270 58 86 144 180 234 414 Shewing a decrease of 5 on the gross total of 1872, which was then 419.
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