Thirty-seventh annual reports for 1895 / East Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • East Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1896
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Credit: Thirty-seventh annual reports for 1895 / East Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there is great need of a fan to extract the steam from the washhouse, which was dense with it at our visit. Closets have been provided on the various landings and elsewhere for an increased supply of fire hose, which is now kept attached to the stand pipes. The appliances are inspected from time to time by an officer from the Brighton Fire Brigade, and there are regular drills of the male and female attendants and other members of the staff. Passing to structural matters, a new large water reservoir has been provided, and the mortuary re-modelled, together with other minor but important alterations. Nothing further has been done with reference to the proposal to erect a hospital block for recent and acute cases, or to provide separate accommodation for idiot children ; and a small isolation building to replace the present sanatorium, now in use for 12 ordinary male cases, remains an important desideratum. There are stated to be no vacancies for males, and 19 for females, but the dormitories throughout the Asylum struck us as being distinctly overcrowded. The pro¬ vision of additional Asylum accommodation is a subject for the early and serious consideration of the Committee, and a matter which cannot, in the interest of the patients, be long delayed. No relief can be expected from con¬ tracts with other Asylums, which are generally, through¬ out the country, already full. We find that the 80 West Sussex patients who were here at the last visit have left, and, with the exception of 13 Private and Out-county patients, the Asylum is occupied by patients of the County and Brighton.