Report of the Committee of Visitors, and twenty-first annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Wiltshire County Asylum.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors, and twenty-first annual report of the medical superintendent, of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts / Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Committee still indulge the hope that any further enlargement of the Asylum may he unnecessary. THE MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT. The reduction in the charge for patients from 8s.' 2d. to 7s. 7d. per head per week, adopted by the Court on the recom¬ mendation contained in the last year’s report, has produced an excess of expenditure above receipts to the extent of £632: 5s. 5d. The Committee are unwilling again to raise the weekly payment unless there is an evident necessity for doing so, and as there is still a balance in hand on this account, they j * recommend that the same rate of payment be continued lor d the present. FIRST COST ACCOUNT. The balance of £652 : 8s. 8d. at the expiration of the if last year has been increased by receipts in excess of payments n to the amount of £839 : 16s. 2d. There is now thereforek £992 : 4s. 5d. available for future expenditure in additionalffl buildings, or otherwise; and, as the Committee do not thinkjl there is any present necessity for increased accommodation,f§ they recommend that this balance be appropriated towards then payment off of £1,000 of the existing debt. tsS