Tenth annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ended 31st December, 1880 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.

  • Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1881?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tenth annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ended 31st December, 1880 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the 21st of December, 12 from Littlemore ; and on the 31st of December, 10 from Hayward’s Heath. It will thus be apparent that no less than 52 of those patients were admitted within the last two weeks of the past year. For the benefit of those to whom such information may prove interesting and for the purpose of future reference, a recapitulation will now be given, without the slightest attempt at criticism, of the structural changes recently effected in the asylum fabric and of the extensions which have been in progress of construction during the past two years. By the enlargement of the asylum additional accommo¬ dation is now provided for 260 patients, exclusive of an infectious ward in each division, which, if occasion demanded, could each accommodate 32 ordinary inmates, thus raising the total available fresh accommodation to 324 beds, which, added to the 285 originally provided, gives an asylum capable of receiving 609 patients. The male extension comprises 116 beds, 95 of which are located in dormitories and 21 in single rooms, exclu¬ sive of the infectious ward, capable of holding for ordinary purposes, 32 beds, two of which are in single rooms. The accommodation provided consists of an enlarge¬ ment of the old infirmary day-room to double its former size, a new day-room of the same proportions on the infirmary first floor, and two large day-rooms with 12 feet corridors attached, 93 feet in length. The sleeping accommodation consists of a new sick dormitory 40 feet by 25 feet, on the ground floor adjoining the infirmary day-room, with three single rooms attached ; a dormitory corresponding in every respect on the floor above, one for 15 patients on the second