The twenty-third 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, 1880, with appendices.

  • Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum
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[1881]
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Credit: The twenty-third 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, 1880, with appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    r. ayS^aS 0rders ]lave th'3 day been issued on the £1000 port of coot Treasurers’ of the County, Isle, and Borough for of enlargement. J ’ O payment of £1,000 in the usual proportions further on account of the £13,000 voted as stated above. Your Committee have every reason to believe that the sum voted (£13,000) will be sufficient for com- pleting all the works of enlargement enumerated in their Special Report to the Quarter Sessions of the County and Isle and to the Town Council of the Borough of the 22nd May, 1876. . Forty patients In consequence of the deficiency of room in the temporarily dis- 1 J Asy!umfrd°u“ng Asylum temporarily occasioned by the building works0therein, works on the male side on the advice of the Medical Superintendent, your Committee, on the 26th January last, found it necessary to discharge for a few weeks 40 Male Patients from the Asylum. In making his selection of Patients to be thus dis- charged, the Medical Superintendent was instructed to have regard to the proportions paid by each of the three bodies towards keeping up the fabric of the Asylum, so that the reduction in number of Patients discharged should be as far as practicable effected in such a manner that the number of Patients remaining in the Asylum corresponded thereto. And for the same reasons a further Order was made that no fresh case of Male Patients would be received into the Asylum after the 29th February, 1880, until further orders. Notices of these orders