Sixth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sixth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “5. A walk of some extent has been made round the Asylum and its airing courts, and has been carried as far as the Gas-works; but it is impracticable to take it round the estate, as suggested, owing to the brook which runs through the land and the inequalities of the ground. “6. No attempt has yet been made to improve the ventilation of the entrance-hall. “ 7. The Committee have authorized the admission of Private and Out-county Patients. There are now 3 Private Patients and 30 males from Bedford in the Asylum. “ In our progress through the Asylum we observed that some of the male dresses were wanting in neatness ; and we recommend that the Nurses and Attendants should be directed to employ a greater amount of towelling than appears to be the ca.se at present, for the purpose of daily use. “We enquired as to the number of Attendants and the wages paid to them. We think that the wages paid to the Female Attendants are below the sum usually paid in County Asylums, and scarcely enough to ensure good Nurses. The number of Nurses also is small, three of the wards, having respectively from 28 to 34 Patients, being provided with only one Nurse for each ward. “ Upon the whole we think the Asylum in very creditable condi¬ tion, and under kind and careful superintendence. “ (Signed) “ B. W. PROCTOR:, | Commissioners “ ROBERT NAIRNE, , in Lunacy.” Your Committee took this Report into their consideration at the monthly meeting held on the 7th June last, and entered the following minutes in their order-book in reference thereto :— (COPY.) “ With reference to the ventilation of the single bed-rooms, which Dr. Sherlock considers defective, it is ordered that Dr. Sherlock have a few of the windows altered as an experiment. With regard to the number of the Nurses, Dr. Sherlock considers them sufficient.