The report of the Medical Superintendent and Director of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1861
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Credit: The report of the Medical Superintendent and Director of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been equal,-—if the articles made and the work done had been paid for at market price,—to £570. The saving by making our own gas instead of purchasing from the Wakefield Gas Works has been about £170, after deducting about £100 spent in new retorts and repairs. No calculation has as yet been made of the value of the labour of the rest of the patients, namely, the women employed in sewing, washing, &c.; and the men as shoemakers, tailors, weavers and out-door labourers; but it would of course amount to a very considerable sum. There is nothing new to report as to the means employed for the amusement of the patients. The two weekly meetings, one for the practice of singing, and the other for dancing, are continued with good results. During the summer, when the weather permitted, several pic-nic and out-door parties took place. One of these, through the kindness of Mr. Waterton, consisted of a delightful excursion, occupying the whole day, by 100 women patients, to Walton Hall; and another, by permission of Mr. Went¬ worth, of a large fishing party to the reservoir at Cold Hiendley. The past year has been an eventful one in the history of the Institution, as regards structural “ additions, alterations, and improvements,” and the consequent changes in organiza¬ tion, and in the general management. The whole of the new buildings commenced in the Autumn of 1858, from plans prepared by Mr. Hartley, the County Surveyor, have been completed. These new works comprise the large central dining hall, servants’ dining rooms, kitchen and sculleries, with means of cooking for 1100 people, cellars, store-rooms, B
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