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

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1863
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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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    The Dormitories erected over the Store rooms at the back of the Kitchen, are in occupation by the House Porter and his wife, by the Kitchen and Laundry Maids, and by the female patients, for the most part employed in the kitchen. A well sheltered gravelled road, ten feet wide and nearly half a mile in length, has been made round the field in front of the Building, as an additional walk for the patients. The Chapel has been ventilated by Me Kin- nell’s patent ventilator. Means have been taken to facilitate the escape of vapour from the Laundry. Pictures and Curtains have been supplied to the Wards in the Pemale Division. The curtains have been made by the patients, and many of the pictures were drawn and painted by a patient. Works in progress.—Three additional Wash¬ ing Machines and a Wringing Machine have been placed in the Laundry; these are to be