1864 : Forty-fifth annual report of the Cornwall Lunatic Asylum, established at Bodmin, A.D. 1820 presented to the magistrates in quarter sessions, on Tuesday, January 5th, 1865 / Cornwall County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Cornwall County Lunatic Asylum
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[1865]
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Credit: 1864 : Forty-fifth annual report of the Cornwall Lunatic Asylum, established at Bodmin, A.D. 1820 presented to the magistrates in quarter sessions, on Tuesday, January 5th, 1865 / Cornwall County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We have nothing special to report in respect to the arrangemen or system of treatment, as to occupations, amusements, o otherwise. Evening meetings for dancing and recreation take place once fortnight during the winter, and weekly during the summ months. The present weekly rate of maintenance is 85. 3d. Referring to the last Report we have to state as follows : — 1. Two full Services are performed on Sundays, when tl Chapel is always full. Its enlargemeut calls for early consider: tion, and would probably be best effected by the addition of North Aisle. Daily Morning Prayers are read by the Chaplain the Male and Eemale Divisions respectively. 2. No steps have as yet been taken for providing new Worn shops. 3. All the Eemale Clothing, and the whole of the Stocking.| are made in the Asylum. About one-fourth of the Shoes and 01:1 sixth of the Men’s Clothing are purchased. A Sewing Machine I about to be introduced for the Tailors. 4. The Wages of the Male Attendants are as heretofore. . I improved Graduated Scale has been adopted for the Nurses, w |j now commence at £11. and advance by 10s. annually to £ It They previously began at £10. and advanced to £12. 5. The new detached Building for Private Patients, of wlill the Plans have been duly approved by the Secretary of State, wll as designed, accommodate 26 Patients of each sex. Ten additio* Jt beds for each sex will be obtained by the conversion of the If Bake-house into Dormitories, and 15 more Pauper Pati©||; of each sex will be provided with sleeping accommodation by Ip consolidation and conversion into Associated Dormitories of I? single rooms in the 1st and 2d Eloor Private Galleries. The t< j| additional accommodation procured by the above means will be Id 51 Patients of each sex. Several of the Dormitories in the Building are at present necessarily overcrowded. 6. Many Mattresses have been re-stuffed, and feathers in mi Is cases substituted for hair in the Pillows. Several, however, of |i| former were noticed by us as still uncomfortably hard, and of j latter insufficiently filled. 7. The defective Drains referred to in the Bath-rooms ] c been put into proper order, where new tiled Baths, with the f boxed off, have been introduced, viz. in Eemale Galleries A. J G. H. and K. 8. The means of personal washing are the same as before, j better in the Male than Eemale Division. We desire agai:.jl draw attention to the subject. 9. The body Linen of the Patients of both sexes is ordin; 1
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