Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st of December, 1854 : with appendix.

  • Bedford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st of December, 1854 : with appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “3. That Mr. William Beime he appointed “ Resident Medical Superintendent, at a salary of “ £200 per annum, and that Mrs. Benne he ap- “ pointed Matron, at a salary of £100 per annum, “with hoard and lodging for themselves and “ family, it being understood, that no additional 66 Building, or material alteration of the present “ one, he required.53 “4. That a Medical Officer he appointed as “ dispenser, who will take upon himself the “ management and superintendence of the farm, “ garden, and establishment generally, under the “ direction of the Superintendent, at a salary of “ not exceeding £80 per annum. “5. That the present General Buies be cancel- “ led, and that the accompanying General Rules* “ as revised by the Committee, he adopted.’3 And the report having been taken into consider- ation, by the Committee, at that meeting, the General Rules then submitted were adopted by the Committee, subject to the approval of one of Her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State (16 and 17 Viet., c. 97, s. 53), and the then existing General Rules were directed to be cancelled, from and after such approval, had been certified ac¬ cording to law. The Committee then communicated to Mr. Harris, how he would be affected by the new