The fifteenth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1872 : with appendices.

  • Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum
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[1873]
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Credit: The fifteenth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, 1872 : with appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE Cainlmitpljitt, Isle of (B\%, raft iorougl] of (Craitaiftgt PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM. Pursuant to the 62nd Section of the 16th and 17th Viet., Cap. 97, the Committee of Visitors of the above Asylum beg to Report to Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of Cambridge and Isle of Ely respectively, in Quarter Sessions assembled, and to the Town Council of the Borough of Cambridge, as follows:— “ The want of Cubical Space in the Day Rooms cZaiw4al.Z of the Asylum ” was a subject urgently brought of the Asylum. forward by the Commissioners in Lunacy, in their Report on an inspection of the Asylum on the 23rd of April, 1870, where they remarked that the Day Room space “ is inadequate to the neces¬ sary requirements for Insane Patients.” But, in consequence of the unavoidable absence of the Chairman, nothing was done in 1870 to remedy the defect. In March, 1871, a Sub-Committee, appointed