Remarks on the treatment of the insane : and the management of lunatic asylums, being the substance of a return from the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, to the circular of his majesty's secretary of state, with a plan / by E.P. Charlesworth.

Date:
1828
    WINGS. 17. Patients’single Sleeping-rooms 7.0 by 9.0 18. double ditto 7.0 — 14.0 19. Ditto, ditto, or Infirmaries • •. 12,6 — 9.0 20. Attendants’ Sleeping-rooms 7.0 — 12.0 21. Dining-rooms 12.0 — 20.0 22. Stairs connecting the upper and lower Galleries with each other, and with the Airing Courts B, B ; communications will be formed to con- nect the Rooms b, b, and c, with the Front Grounds. OFFICES. L '«%/«* ~~ ■* - • « « o <* « o c e c * * • • * • * 23. Kitchen • 24. Scullery 25. Brewhouse 26. Knife-house 27. Coal-yard 28. Ash-house 29. Laundry 30. Wash-house 31. Drying-house • • • 32. Straw and Lumber-house •••••••« 33. Dead-house • • • • * * 34. Horse-shed 14.0 — 20.0 7.0 — 5.6 16.6 — 18.0 6.0 — 16.6 16.6 — 17.6 10.6 — 14.6 16.0 — 15.0 16.0 — 17.0 16.0 — 13.0 1.6.0 — 22.0 4.6 — 12.0 10.0 — 12.0 LODGES, &c. 35. Front Lodge, Yard, and Offices. 36. Back Lodge, Yard, and Offices. 37. Water Closets. 38. Privies,. GROUNDS. 39. Proposed line of the West Boundary Wall. 40. Line of ditto, as now standing.
    41. Proposed Kitchen Garden. 42. Drying Ground. 43. North approach and Area. 44. Forcing Pump. 45. Proposed Arcades in the Exercising Grounds. 46. Flagged Walks in Ditto. 47. Grass Plots in Ditto. 48. Mounds in the Courts B, B, affording extensive prospects over the country. 49. Shrubbery and Flower Garden. 50. Carriage-road and Gravel-walk. 51. Ha Ha, and sunk Boundary Walls. 52. Air-vents for the warm-air flues. 53. Situation of the Spring, which supplies the Pump through a Tunnel under ground.
    In the Females’ Airing Court C,for 595 sq. yds., read 478 sq. yds.
    REMARKS ON THE TREATMENT OF THE INSANE, #c. Lincoln, November 1 Ith, 1827. ANSWERS AND OBSERVATIONS, BY EDWARD PARKER CHARLES- WORTH, M.D., ONE OF THE PHYSICIANS OF THE LINCOLN LUNATIC ASYLUM, IN REPLY TO THE INQUIRIES CONTAINED IN THE THIRD APPENDIX OF THE REPORT ON PAUPER LUNA- TICS AND LUNATIC ASYLUMS, MADE ON A VIEW OF THE CLERK OF THE PEACE OF THE CITY OF LINCOLN AND COUNTY THEREOF, PURSUANT TO AN ORDER TRANSMITTED BY HIS majesty’s secretary; of state. SITUATION OF THE BUILDING. Question 1.—Is the situation sufficiently elevated, dry, airy, and moderately sheltered ? Does it combine retirement with cheerfulness ? Is it convenient of access ? Answer 1.—The building is elevated, dry, and sheltered, standing upon the brow of a hill open to the south and south- west, and screened from the north-east. It is convenient of access, sufficiently retired, and eminently cheerful, combining
    a view of the whole city, the race-ground, vessels, and adjacent country to an unbounded extent. (See Appendix A.) Q. 2.—What extent of ground is occupied by the Establishment; and how are the premises appro- priated as respects garden-ground, &c. ? A. 2.—The premises contain at present nearly four acres, and a treaty is on foot for an additional quantity for enlarging the grounds on the Female side. The courts are extensive: the area of each will be found in the accompanying Plan *. One of the courts appropriated to the Female patients will be cultivated as a flower-garden : and about two acres in front are now a lawn, with broad gravel-walks surrounded by a flower- garden ornamentally planted, for the use of the patients, espe- cially of such as are in a convalescent state. PLAN. . . - • - : ; '• • . \ Q. 3.—What number of Patients is the Establish- ment calculated to receive ? Q. 4.—If a public Establishment, what was the - - i cost of the building and furniture ? A. 3 and 4.—The building when finished, will admit seventy- eight Patients, and will have cost, including fitting up and fur- nishing, about twenty thousand pounds. Q. 5.—What is the extent of general classification, and of individual separation of the Patients,—distin- guishing sex, character of disease, degree of violence, and state of convalescence ? Q. 6.—What is the number of day-rooms, and their respective dimensions ? A. 5 and 6.—When the additions and alterations now in