Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1850 / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum.
Date:
[1851?]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1850 / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT to be presented respectively to the ensuing Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Counties of Oxford and Berks, to the next Meetings of the Councils of the City of Oxford and Borough of Reading, and to the ensuing Quarter Sessions of the Borough of Abingdon. We beg to report that the Asylum has been duly visited in the course of the year as prescribed by the Rules; the Visita¬ tions consisting of the monthly Meetings ol the general Committee, and intermediate Meetings of Sub-Committees,— besides occasional assemblings of the Visitors when special circumstances arose.—And we are enabled to report favor¬ ably of the management of the Institution, on the part of its several Officers and Servants. An outlay upon the original, or Capital Account in re¬ spect of the building, furnishing, and completing the Asylum, has not ceased to be necessary until the present time, when the Account may be considered to be closed.— j The most recent items of Expenditure upon this Account relate to the deepening of one of the Wells near the House, —the fixing of a new, additional Steam Boiler,—and the purchase and consecration of a Piece of Ground added to