Tenth annual reports for 1868 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1869
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Credit: Tenth annual reports for 1868 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HAYWAKDS HEATH. 1868. TENTH ANNUAL EE PORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. To Her Majesty''s Justices of the Peace for the County of Sussex, assembled in Quarter Sessions, held at Lewes, in and for the Pastern Division of the said County, on Monday, the fourth day of January, 1869; and at Petworth, in and for the Western Division of the said County, on Thursday, the seventh day of January, 1869, The COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE SUSSEX COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM appointed at the Epiphany Sessions, 1868, REPORT:— Your Committee are glad that they can report very favorably of the general state of the Asylum and its inmates. All the buildings are complete and furnished. Since the last report, a small piece of ground, with a cottage, adjoin¬ ing the Asylum land, having been offered for sale, the I Visitors considered it desirable to prevent it becoming the I property of a stranger, while, at the same time, its occupation was important to the management of the Asylum, i As there was no time to report the intended sale to the 3 Sessions, the Visitors determined on purchasing it for £150, I and they were enabled to provide the funds from the main- 1 tenance account. The property has been conveyed to the : Trustees for the County. Satisfactory con¬ dition of the Asy¬ lum. Purchase of a Cot¬ tage for Cowman.
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