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
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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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    Works, Smith’s shops, Store-sheds, and a large Shed having a turntable and rails from the Railway, by which Goods are at once brought to the Asylum; and at the end of the Shed is the Weigh-bridge, which serves for road as well as railway waggons. CHAPLAIN’S RESIDENCE. The Northern and Eastern sides of the property towards the Great Northern Railway are bounded by a brick wall. At the Western side is the residence of the Chaplain, haTing a garden attached, enclosed with an oak fence. The style of architecture adopted for the Asylum is the Italian, having brick walls and stone rustic quoins, strings, cornices, and window and door dressings. It was originally contemplated that the Building would only be required for 1,000 Patients, but its extreme length is 1,883 feet 8 inches, (or something more than the third of a Ihile) and the width of the Galleries 14 feet, so that the Asylum is, in fact, capable of being made eventually to accommodate, with careful arrangement, from 1,300 to 1,500 Patients. The Colney Hatch Station, on the Line of the Great Northern Railway, adjoins the Asylum, from which there is a siding for the use of the Establishment.
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