Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the counties of Bedford, Hertford, & Huntingdon, called "The Three Counties Asylum," for the year ending the 31st of December, 1869 : with appendices.
- Three Counties' Asylum (Arlesey, England)
- Date:
- 1870
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the counties of Bedford, Hertford, & Huntingdon, called "The Three Counties Asylum," for the year ending the 31st of December, 1869 : with appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![APPENDIX. [A] EEPOBT OF ME. SAMUEL H U G TI E S, C. E. P. G. S., OX THE BOEING EOE WATER. To F. G. Butler, Esq., Clerk to the Visitors of the Three Counties Asylumi, at Arlesey. Sir, In pursuance of your instructions dated 22nd January instant, I have examined the present well and boring at Arlesey, and now beg to report as follows :— According to a section received from you, an open well has been sunk through loam and sand, chalk and gravel to a depth of 73 feet, and at the bottom of this well, a boring has been made through gault and lower green sand to a depth of 302 feet, making a total depth from surface of ground to end of the bore hole equal to 373 feet. I am requested to state my opinion whether a supply of water could be obtained either by driving adits from the well already formed, or by increasing the depth of the boring.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30305159_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
