Twenty-first report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1872.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1873?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Twenty-first report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1872. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    17 divisions of the Asylum. Fish is a useful change in the dietary, conducing to the health of the inmates, without adding to the cost of the meal; on the contrary, being more economical. It is in contemplation to give a Fish Dinner regularly, about once a fortnight. In consequence of the enhanced cost of provisions and the advance in wages, it was necessary to increase the weekly rate from 9s. 9d. to 10s. 6d., which took effect from 1st December. Amongst the additions, alterations, and improvements during the past year may be mentioned the following: The conversion of the middle room of three adjoining bath rooms on the ground floor and upper storey on each side of the Asylum into dressing rooms, the floors of which are covered with linoleum; the erection of rustic sunshades in the North Airing Court on each side of the Asylum; and the erection of a small sunshade at the west corner of the South Airing Court for Men; the temporary addition of 20 acres of land to the Asylum Farm, 20 acres of grass land known as “the Hills,” adjoining the Asylum estate to the west, having been rented from 7th Sept., 1872, to 2£>th March, 1878, which land it is very desirable to secure permanently; the improvement and enlarge¬ ment of the Cemetery by the removal of the low brick wall surrounding it, which was decayed and in a bad state, and the substitution of holly and quick-set hedges, its enlargement having been effected by the addition of a triangular portion of land near the farm gate, and the enclosure of a portion of the adjoining plantation which has been thinned and cleared; fixing handrails to the staircases at end of corridors communicating with the upper storey on each side of the Asylum; the completion of the repair of the outer boundary wall referred to in last Annual Report, by partial “pointing” and brick supports, and planting a quick-set hedge round the field fronting the Asylum, said hedge having been protected from the Cattle by a wire fence; rebuilding the north boundary wall to the east of the Lodge, which it was necessary to pull down, as it was not considered safe; the removal of the wall between the two North c