Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    now fully and satisfactorily completed. The supply of water obtained from it is ample and of excellent quality. No supply has been received from the Water Company since October last, whereby a considerable saving has been effected. The total cost of the Well with its Pumps, Engines, Machinery, and Pittings, has been £2923. 5s. 8d. The charge of the Water Company, for only a partial supply of Water, was about £466. per annum. The improvements for which, on a Special Report of the Committee previously printed and circulated, the Session at Guildford in July last voted the sum of £550., are nearly completed, and further improvements are in progress. A copy of this Special Report is appended. Prom the Returns of the Clerks to the Boards of Guardians of the several Unions and Parishes in the County under the provisions of the 16th and 17tli Viet., cap 97, sec. 64, it appears that on the 1st of January, 1862, the number of Pauper Lunatics belonging to the County was as follows :—