A descriptive notice of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath (opened 25th July, 1859) / by C. Lockhart Robertson.

  • C. Lockhart Robertson
Date:
[1859?]
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Credit: A descriptive notice of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath (opened 25th July, 1859) / by C. Lockhart Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    ing. I think tlie south ceutre building would have been more economically employed, looking to its extent, if fitted as wards and dormitories for the convalescent and orderly female patients. The inevitable extension of the female population of every asylum may possibly lead in future years to this apphcation of the Superintendent's rooms, and to the erection on the grounds of a house of more modest dimensions and with more quiet. Mcde and Female Wings. To the east and west of the central south front, just described, lie, with the same south aspect, the male and female wings, as shewn in the ground plan. These wings are three stories high. The gi-ound and second floor are built alike, and contain the galleries and day rooms, as well as dormitories and single bed rooms. The third story is entirely devoted to sleeping accommodation. Each of the two wards on the ground and second floor (four in all) have been arranged for the day accommodation of fifty patients. The infirmaries, (16 and 17,) (originally on the suggestion of the Commissioners built as day rooms for the working patients—a plan I did not fijid to work) hold twelve beds each, and the small one-storied building, running south at right angles from the male and female wings (built as infirmaries) form the fifth (refractory) ward, holding thirteen patients. Each wing therefore, including the third dormitory story, has accommodation for 225 patients. The original design was for 200 of each sex. A reference to the ground plan will shew the arrangement of the wards. They are each exactly alike. They consist of of a day-room (2), of a gallery (1), and of a dining-room (3). The entire length of these three rooms, which form the ward, is 113 feet. The dining-rooms of the adjacent wards communicate with a glass door. The galleries are 11 feet wide and 11 high. The roof is ceiled. The single rooms are 9 feet by 7 feet. The day rooms open into the passages at each end, from which there is a direct communication on to the terrace. At the end of each gallery is the bath- room and lavatory (7), mth a double water-closet and urinal adjoining. The engineering fittings of the baths, lavatories, and water-closet are not satisfactory. Two of the single rooms (4, 4), leading out of each dining-room, are appro- priated respectively for the scullery and ward store. The attendant's room (0) enters off the gallery (1), and is between two dormitories (5), each of which it commands by a side window. The recess under the stairs in the passage outside is on each side fitted as a slop and broom room. Each
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