First report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, from 30 September, 1870, to 31 December, 1871 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.

  • Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: First report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, from 30 September, 1870, to 31 December, 1871 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was duly entered into, confirmed, and reported early in the year 1867, and that your Commit¬ tee were appointed to carry such Agreement into effect in February of that year. Their first duty was to procure a proper site for the proposed new Asylum. This was found in the Parish of Cholsey, in Berkshire, and the pur. chase of itwas authorised in April, 1867. It iscon- veniently near to the Moulsford Station, on the GreatWesternBailway, consists of 79a. 2n. 35p., the soil of it is healthy, the water supply ample, and the aspect cheerful. The Committee were authorised to purchase this site. The actual price was £8038 Is. lOd., afterwards the Land Tax was redeemed at the price of £139 3s. 9d., and the whole cost of the site, including the incidental charges, amounted to £8317 11s. 9d. Mr. C. H. Howell, of 3, Lancaster Place, Strand, was appointed the Architect of the the Asylum. The Plans and Estimates pre¬ pared by him were in October 1867 laid before the Bepresentative Bodies of the yarious mem¬ bers of the Union, and were subsequently approved by them, and a Secretary of State, in accordance with the Acts of Parliament. These Plans provided for a main Building to accom¬ modate 285 Patients, with Offices and provision for 500 Patients, a Superintendent's House^ Lodge-Cottages, Engineer’s and Baihff’s Cotta-