Seventh annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Asylum for Lunatics, : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of contributors, 4th January, 1821.

  • Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Seventh annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Asylum for Lunatics, : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of contributors, 4th January, 1821. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Architect must give plans of the necessary drains or sewers, and he must advert to the means of supplying the establishment with water, gas-light, and heated air. It is of great importance that the Physician, Superin¬ tendent, or Matron, should be able to proceed from any one part, to any other of the whole establishment, with¬ out being observed from any of the windows, either by Keepers or by Patients. The Architect must, therefore, contrive to secure this advantage, either by connecting the different buildings with each other, or by means of walls, corridors, or covered passages. Such passages may be made very broad, open at one or at both sides, and so as to answer for places of recreation in bad weather. In the elevations of the buildings for Patients of the more respectable classes, there must neither be extravagant decoration, nor any appearance of mean¬ ness. And although every consideration must yield to that of utility, yet the Architect is strictly enjoined, not, if possible, to plan any building, which, from its struc¬ ture or situation, might, when erected, injure the aspect of the present elegant and picturesque edifice.