First annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • St. John's Hospital (Stone, Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
1854
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Credit: First annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    After much deliberation your Committee selected the Plan furnished by Messrs. Wyatt and Brandon, as the most eligible, which after having been in some respects revised at the suggestion of the Commissioners in Lunacy, was duly approved by the Court, and by the Secretary of State, and was afterwards efficiently and satisfactorily carried out, under the superin¬ tendence of Mr. Brandon, since the dissolution of his partnership with Mr. Wyatt. It will be within the recollection of the Court that the original Estimate of the Main Building, which was submitted to and approved by the Court at Easter Session, 1850, amounted to £30,500, but this was exclusive of additional Buildings and other Works, not contemplated in the original Estimate, such as Gas Works, Engineers’ and Gardeners’ Houses, Entrance Lodge, Stables, Fittings, Furniture, and Clothing of the Patients, which have since increased the expenditure to a sum approaching £43,500, and your Committee submit to the Court an Abstract of their Capital Account, set forth in the Appendix, No. 1. An erroneous impression seems to have prevailed in some quarters that the accommodation to be afforded in a Lunatic Aslyum, was no more than that required in a Union Workhouse, and that the Building might be erected for much the same cost, the essential differences between the two Institu¬ tions and the capacity, habits, and necessities of the inmates being greatly overlooked. Your Committee subjoin a list of Counties in which Lunatic Aslyums of recent date have been provided, shewing the total cost in each, and the average cost of construction, per Patient; from which it will be seen that the total cost in this County will bear a fair comparison with that in other Counties, the small number of Patients for which the Establishment has been provided being taken into consideration, viz :— ASYLUMS. Date of Building. DERBY . 1851 PRESTWICH .... 1851 SOUTH WALES. . . 1852 WILTS. 1851 BIRMINGHAM . . . 1851 RAINHILL near PRES-) COT, (Lancashire) . J 1 oo& SALOP . 1851 SOMERSET .... 1849 BUCKS . 1852 For how many Patients. Total Cost. Average Cost per Patient. £ £ 300 92,903 309 456 88,023 193 210 37,135 177 286 56,303 196 312 74,224 238 410 85,423 208 230 36,036 156 342 52,000 152 2546 522,047 • • 200 43,500 217 o o c* <u bo c3 CL) > cn CD O O