Sixth annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ending 31st December, 1876 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.

  • Moulsford Lunatic Asylum
Date:
[1877?]
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Credit: Sixth annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and Chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ending 31st December, 1876 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the drying-room in the laundry has been greatly im¬ proved. Three cast-iron retorts have been replaced at the gas-works, and a donkey-engine has been introduced into the boiler-house for the purpose of pumping a supply of water into the large boilers when the principal steam- engine happens to be undergoing repair. On the 4th of May the annual inspection of the asylum was made by two of the Commissioners in Lunacy, who stated that they had a very favourable report to make both as regards the state of the building and the condition of the inmates. However, as their Report, inscribed in the Visitors’ Book, may prove interesting to some, it will be printed in the Appendix. In regard to the contemplated extension of the asylum, the Medical Superintendent, after visiting and carefully inspecting a number of asylums of established reputation where enlargements of considerable magnitude had re¬ cently been effected, having already laid before the Com¬ mittee a Special Report upon the subject, deems it un¬ necessary to make any further allusion to this topic beyond publicly acknowledging his great obligations to the Medical Superintendents of the asylums visited, not only for their cordial hospitality, but also for the valuable information he obtained in regard to various important questions submitted to their consideration upon which an opinion was solicited. There has been only one change in the official staff* during the year, caused by the resignation of the Chap¬ lain, the Rev. C. F. Thorndike, whose departure was universally regretted by both patients and officials. The Rev. W. Kirkby, vicar of the parish of Cholsey, in which the asylum is located, who will be assisted by a curate, has been appointed as his successor.
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