The report of the Committee of Visitors of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1857 : presented to the Court, at Wakefield sessions, 5th January, 1858.

  • West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1858
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Credit: The report of the Committee of Visitors of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1857 : presented to the Court, at Wakefield sessions, 5th January, 1858. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Accommoda¬ tion. The accommodation provided during the past year has enabled the Visitors to receive all patients on their first application, with few exceptions. New Building. The newly erected building, contiguous to the laundry, was opened on the 28th September last. This building is capable of accommodating upwards of sixty patients. The Asylum does not at present contain so large a number of patients as it is capable of receiving, owing to two wards in the female department undergoing a complete process of cleansing, painting, and repairing. Enlargement of the Asylum. Mr. Hartleys plans for enlarging the Asylum in the manner proposed by the Committee of Visitors, on the 5th March last, were laid before the Commissioners in Lunacy, in June last, when a deputation from the Visitors waited upon the Commissioners, in London. These plans were not approved of by the Commissioners, who recom¬ mended the Visitors to erect a new Asylum, of a simple and inexpensive character, in preference to the proposed enlargement. At a subsequent con¬ ference with the Commissioners held at the Asylum on the 10th of June last, it was decided not to proceed with the erection of a new wing,