Thirty-first report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1882.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1883?]
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Credit: Thirty-first report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : for the year 1882. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    annual visits by Boards of Guardians for many years, certainly for the last eleven years. A birth has to be recorded as one of the events of the year. A Patient admitted on 18th February gave birth to a healthy female child five days after admission. It does seem a pity in such a case so near confinement that the little stranger should not have had the benefit of being born elsewhere than in the Asylum. The child was subsequently removed by the Patient’s husband. Necessary additions have been made to the Fire Brigade appliances, viz., corridor wheel pumps, wheel hose-reel, lamps for the fire engine, and hand-lamps for the firemen. In the report for 1881 reference was made to a reduction of the Maintenance Charge, which the Committee were enabled to effect from the beginning of that year, of 3d. per Patient per week, viz., from 11s. to 10s. 9d. The Committee are again enabled still further to reduce the Maintenance Charge, to take effect from 1st April, 1883. A pension of £30 a year was granted by the Court of Quarter Sessions, on 27th June, to William Axon, a very meritorious attendant, who for many years had charge of the Infirmary Ward, where he faithfully and efficiently performed very trying and onerous duties until his health broke down, and it became necessary for him to resign on account of ill-health. He only lived to enjoy his well earned pension about three months, and the pension has lapsed by his death, which took place on 23rd September. An improvement has been effected with regard to a change of linen for Male Patients, all the men’s shirts being now changed twice a week, in place of once a week as formerly. The weekly associated entertainments continue as heretofore, and seed-cake is now given to the Patients on these evenings, which they seem to relish and appreciate.
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