Eleventh annual report of the county & city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Eleventh annual report of the county & city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Mr. Wheeler to be offered the office, and if he accepts “ it, the salary to commence at Christmas last, and to in- “ elude his Audit Valuation and Stock-taking at the end of “ last quarter.” * Mr. Wheeler accepted the appointment, and we have every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which he has per¬ formed his duties. Thomas Walker was appointed Storekeeper during the past year, at the wages of £35., with board and lodging and washing. It became necessary to enlarge the oven in connection with the new works, and your Committee were recommended to consider whether it would not be advisable to have two brick ones, with flues and fittings, on Messrs. Benham & Son’s (of Wigmore Street, London) new principle, and after making every enquiry, determined to do so. The ovens have been erected a short time, and seem to answer extremely well; the consump¬ tion of fuel is comparatively small. The Bev. Mr. Horton, the Chaplain, applied to your Com¬ mittee for an increase of his salary of <P60., on account of his additional work by the large increase of Patients. We thought it a grave question whether a Chaplain should not devote his whole time to the Asylum, and fully considered it. We were unwilling to do this without consultation with Mr. Horton, who had always satisfactorily discharged his duties, and the result of that consultation was a letter (as follows) from that gentleman. “ Lower Wick, Worcester, June 9th, 1863. “ Dear Sir,—At the last Meeting of the Committee at “ the Asylum, Dr. Sherlock informs me, there was a doubt “ expressed as to the ability of any but a Resident Chaplain “ to perform the increased duties which the Asylum now “ requires. I should be glad therefore if you would lay “ before the next Committee Meeting a statement from me, as to what I could undertake if desired so to do.