Tenth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January to the end of the year 1857.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Tenth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January to the end of the year 1857. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE VISITORS OF THE ©merfft ®iDiOTil2i amiOTfflilfe PRESENTED TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS, HELD AT THE CASTLE OE IWUNTON, IN THE SAID COUNTY, On the 5th of January^ 1858. The Committee of Visitors of the County Asylum have to submit to the Court the following Report. The Eev. J. M. Mason having resigned the office of Chaplain, as was stated in their last report, they have appointed the Rev, X. N. Paszkowicz. Mrs. Castvell the Matron, haying resigned on account of ill health, they have not filled up the vacancy, but have appointed Miss H. Storey as head attendant of the female side, to superintend especially the needle work. The Committee have removed several partitions, so as to form a dormitory on the female side nearly as large as that which was made last year on the male side. The alteration* is satisfactory to the Com¬ mittee and to the Superintendent, who desires to * This has also been noticed with approval by the Commissioners in Lunacy.