Twenty-fourth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Twenty-fourth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    entirely new filtering beds, running parallel to the side of the brook, and six feet from the bank, over which the water would flow into the reservoirs. The beds to be 24 feet long by 12 feet wide and 5 feet deep. Your Committee after carefully considering the subject, and having obtained the sanction of the Commissioners in Lunacy and the Secretary of State for the Home Department to the plan for the proposed alterations, entered into a contract with Messrs. Wood and Sons to carry out the work at a cost not exceeding £400, which will be provided under the authority of Section 88 of the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853. Your Committee have received a Legacy of £500 from the Executors of the late Miss Caroline Strawson, of The Elms, Cradley, bequeathed by her for the “ general purposes of the Institution,” and after paying £50 legacy duty, invested the balance, £450, with the consent of the Charity Commissioners, in the purchase of £370 East Indian Railway Guaranteed 5 per Cent. Stock, in the name of the “ Official Trustee of Charity Funds,” and resolved that the Interest should from time to time be applied for the benefit of necessitous Patients leaving the Asylum. Your Committee have held twelve ordinary Meetings, and the House Committee eight Meetings during the year. The following table shows the attendances of the Committee during the year - No. of Attendances. The Earl of Dudley ... ... ... — Rev. John Pearson ... ... ... 12 G. W. Hastings, Esq. ... ... ... 12 R. Harington, Esq. ... ... ... 5 Rev. C. J. Sale ... ... ... ... 11 John Brinton, Esq. ... ... ... 9 C. M. Berington, Esq. ... ... ... 12 R. Berkeley, Esq. ... ... ... 8 R. Bourne, Esq. ... ... ... ... 11 E. V. Wheeler, Esq. ... ... ... 11 F. D. Lea Smith, Esq. ... ... ... 5 F. Woodward, Esq. ... ... ... 8 R. E. Barnett, Esq. ... ... ... 7 H. Willis, Esq. 2 W, Holland, Esq. ... 2