Twenty-third annual report of the medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum, for the counties of Salop and Montgomery, and for the borough of Wenlock, 1867 / [Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum].

  • Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Twenty-third annual report of the medical superintendent of the lunatic asylum, for the counties of Salop and Montgomery, and for the borough of Wenlock, 1867 / [Salop and Montgomeryshire Counties Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And the present balance due from the Treasurer is on the Main¬ tenance Account £1123. 10s. 7d.~and to the Treasurer on the Building Account £340. 14s. lOd. All Accounts due from Unions and Parishes to the 30th September have been paid. Mr. Groves, who was elected surveyor in the place of Mr. Haycock, (who resigned), in January last, reports that the Asylum is generally in a state of good repair. The total accommodation afforded in the Asylum is for 510 Patients, and there being in it at present 475, there remain vacancies on the Pemale side for 16, and on the Male side for 19 Patients. The inadequate accommodation afforded by the Chapel had been repeatedly mentioned to the Court, and at the October Sessions, a plan was laid before the Court for providing 177 additional seats, by adding a side aisle and chancel, so that a total of 393 seats will be obtained after the proposed alteration is carried out. This plan was santioned by this Court, and by the Courts of Montgomery and Borough of Wenlock, but it has not been thought expedient to com¬ mence the alteration during this winter. The washing has been found too burdensome to be well man¬ aged by simply hand labour, and at the October Sessions a plan was sanctioned for putting up machinery by Messrs. Manlove and Alliott, which has been found successful in other Asylums. This machinery will be worked by steam power, and will be erected as soon as possible by the contractors. It has been considered very desirable to establish a library for the use of the Patients and Attendants. A small grant has been made this year for this purpose by the Yisitors, but the want of a Library would be soon supplied if Members of this Court and others would send as donations any books that they may consider suitable for that purpose. Some communications have passed between the Yisitors and the Borough of Ludlow with respect to the admission of the Patients from that Borough into the Asylum, upon the same terms as the other Boroughs. The Court will remember that Ludlow is the only Borough in the County which has not yet made an arrangement with the Yisitors for the admission of their Patients. The conduct of the staff has been good, with one exception. Patrick Doyle was discharged for neglect of duty, which resulted in