The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1872.

  • Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Charminster, England)
Date:
1873
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Credit: The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1872. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Representations were made at the Midsummer Quarter Sessions to the Visitors, by the late Incumbent and a Reputation from the Vestry of Charminster, with regard to the state of the Churchyard of that parish and especially that portion of it which was added by the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan for the burial of the patients from the Asylum. As it appeared upon inquiry that the part so added would, in all probability, be filled up within a twelvemonth, that the churchyard itself is hardly adequate for the ordinary requirements of the parish, and that no suitable land can be obtained by the Visitors for a further addition, they have submitted to the Secretary of State a plan and estimate for a Cemetery and Mortuary Chapel on the lands attached to the Charminster Asylum at a cost of £420. They propose to provide the money from the Non- Pauper and Out-County surplus account, but they ask for the approval of the Court as required by the 38th Section of the Lunatic Asylums’ Act, 1853. The two Asylums were very fully inspected by two of the Commissioners in Lunacy at the end of last October. Their minute contains many recommendations for the improvement of the building at the old Asylum and in regard to the accommodation and the management of the patients. The Visitors are directing their best attention to these suggestions, and many of them they are desirous of carrying out as time and a due regard to expen¬ diture will allow. With the state of the wards and the condition of the patients they express their entire satisfaction ; and, as on previous occasions, refer to the able and successful management of the two establishments by the Medical Superintendent. The maintenance rate which had stood at the uniform sum of Is. per day through the first three Quarters of the year, has been raised to Is. 2d. for the Quarter ending at Christmas. The additional expenditure for coals and other fuel accounts for nearly the whole increase, having been in the last Quarter £4S3 15s. 2d. as against £196 19s. 3d. for the corresponding Quarter of last year. The further sum of £800 was ordered at the last Michael-