Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, holden at Preston, 28th December, 1882, with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, holden at Preston, 28th December, 1882, with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    about 50 men and 120 women. We should hope that when the roads and walks in connection with the Annexe are formed, these numbers will be considerably increased. The present staff of attendants appears to be respectable and efficient, and to be of adequate strength. We give the rates of wages :—Male attendants enter at £30 a-year ; at the end of six months receive £35 a-year, with an annual increase of £1 up to £50. Female nurses begin at £18 10s. a-year wages, which at the end of six months are increased to £20, and advance by £1 a-year to £30. Charge attendants on the male side have £10, on the female side £5, per annum extra. The night attendants have additions of £5 and £3 respectively. These attendants are six for the male and eight for the female division, with, in each case, a superintendent night-w atcli. The structural improvements and additions which we have to mention include new New Gasworks ; additions to the Day-rooms of Wards 2 and 3 in each Division, which greatly add to the comfort of those wards; a new Boiler-house ; a new Entrance Lodge near the Prestwich road ; an addition to the day space of No. 1 Ward on the male side, which was occupied by women, will be useful as a place to smoke in ; and the asphalting of walks in the grounds. Works requiring early attention are the removal of the Pig¬ geries, the entire reconstruction of the Workshops, and the im¬ provement of the Laundry, which is now too small. The acquisi¬ tion of the land between the Asylum and the Prestwich road will allow of an important addition to the male airing grounds. We have fully inspected the Annexe, or Auxiliary Asylum, now in progress. A considerable amount of internal work remains to be done, and we do not suppose the wards will be ready for the