The final report of the committee appointed to provide an additional pauper lunatic asylum, and resolutions of the court / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch

Date:: 1852

Credit: The final report of the committee appointed to provide an additional pauper lunatic asylum, and resolutions of the court / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$e;sv;cess is attributablp to tJie iiicreasecV extent af gxQtind necessp’ilyiCoye?.’9d by a bviUding two stories bigb, as com¬ pared .wjtb oiiej of a liigber elevation, and, which, after thof, unsuccessful attempt ef your GominiUee with the Coniri,, naissi(^ei’S in Lunacy; referred to . in the early part of this; E,eport,^was sanctioned by the Couit. Your Committee haye now^ therefprQj^^only to call the attention of the Court to those featui’es of, increased,expenditure which most proud-' nently exhibit them^lveSr, . . , n t , The heaviest item in this, category will be found to be the/ earthy^ork—inclu4it>^g digging, levelling, trimming^ draining, and the making of roads and footpaths—^the great length.of the budding and The necessity of having both front and^ back afCcessible to carts heavily laden required the formationof many himdiod yards of wide and good road at a veiy hea>^ expense, the soil being unfortmiately ill calculated for the purpose, and many thousand yards of ballast-having, in con¬ sequence, to be burned for covering them. y,. , The^ same extensive line of frontage greatly limited, the qhoice of position for the budding; and it was found necessary to place, it ,so far down the slope, from the high-road, that afterwards your Committee were obliged to have many tho-u- sand loads of the rising ground in front of the buddiug removed to giyc it its propey elevation, while the. higher ground was^found,.to.contain ^uch nmnerous laiid ^rmgs that ,a , vpry large nmounjf of di’ainage. was necessitated^ to sepnrn the huilding pyoperly from damp^ from end-to end of ^^imm9n|i^^frontagQ Q£l,d§4^ fee^h. mchpsc..] rroo? ^>di ynarraJ'to .t&tj.ehi-‘^ti.T hr? ,’^os’aoe hr- p iie^t. heavy .item, to .+w.hich yonr Committee would djrect, the, attention of the Com.’t was the \yaymdig' and. ^hntilatin^^. -$