Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Surrey Lunatic Asylum, 7th June, 1859. Sir, By direction of the Committee of Visitors, I return to you herewith the plans for the provision of additional accommodation for the pauper lunatics of Surrey, and in reply to your letters of the 17th and 27th of May last, I am to acquaint you, for the inform¬ ation of the Commissioners in Lunacy, that although the Committee are not at liberty, (as the Commissioners are aware) to treat for the purchase of additional land, they would most readily have considered any practical suggestions from the Commissioners, apart from the purchase of land, having for their objects the provision of suitable accommodation, and the diminution of County expense. The Committee are of opinion that the erection of additional workshops and kitchen offices are unnecessary, the present workshops and offices being sufficient, at least for a time if not permanently, for the proposed extensions; and that the erection of a dining hall Avould involve an amount of expenditure, which, with submission to the Commissioners, they feel would not be expedient. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, (Signed) STEPHEN BRIDGLAND, Cleric to the Committee of Visitors. To John Forster, Esq, Secretary to the Commissioners in Lunacy.