The sixteenth annual report of the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bracebridge, near Lincoln.

  • Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum at Bracebridge
Date:
1869
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Credit: The sixteenth annual report of the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bracebridge, near Lincoln. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Desirableness of the purchase of land. Additions and Improvements. Occupations and Amusements. TablcsXIV.,XV.> and XYI. of the Asylum, which the Visitors have recently entered on as tenants; hut the permanent expense attendant upon the use of steam-power, and the length of iron pipe and wooden troughs requisite to convey the liquid would certainly form a heavy drawback in an economi¬ cal point of view. It fortunately happens that an opportunity will shortly be presented to the Visitors of purchasing a grass-field on the slope of the hill near the Asylum, which is extremely well adapted for irrigation. The liquid might be conveyed to it through drain-pipes direct from the filter tanks, without the aid of any machinery, and be left to trickle over it and permeate the soil by simple gravitation. The possession of this field would entirely obviate any further difficulty in disposing of the sewage, and at once supply the means of keeping cows—a desideratum which has been long felt. The old chapel has been converted into a good Recreation-hall; the extension of the Laundry-block and the building of the new Chapel completed ; and the mounds of rubbish and debris from these and former building operations are now being carted away and thrown into the quarry. The waste land on the east side of the Asylum will, therefore, soon be under culti¬ vation again. The Recreation-hall has been in regular \ weekly use since Christmas. The Lord Bishop of the Diocese has kindly consented to open the new Chapel for Divine Service on Tuesday in Whitsun Week, the 18 th of May. The industrial occupation and amusements of the? patients have not been suffered to relax. Out of doors •
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