Twenty-first annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1874
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Credit: Twenty-first annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [SCHEDULE No. 4.] Worcester County and City Lunatic Asylum, Powick, near Worcester, December 1st, 1873. My Lord and Gentlemen, In compliance with the direction of the Committee of Visitors that their Superintendent should make a special report at their next meeting on the subject of Earth Closets, and that he should also report as to the practicability of making such bathing arrangements as would render the provision of an additional number of baths unnecessary, as also in respect of the extension of the laundry accommodation, and more especially that of the wash house, and as to means to facilitate and provide for the proper drying of the clothing, he begs to submit as follows m. ho enable the Committee to clearly understand the position in which the Asylum is now placed, it is necessary to refer to its gradual enlargement by various additions, extending over the 21 years during which it has been in operation. Annexed is a statement (Table 1) shewing the accom¬ modation provided for patients at the date of its opening in August 1852, when it was calculated that the Asylum could receive 202 patients in equal proportion of each sex. Soon after the opening of the Asylum it was found that the number of patients received and remaining under treatment so considerably exceeded ■ the accommodation provided, that steps wrere taken for its enlargement nr respect of both the male and female departments, and in 185X6 two dormitory wards, capable of accommodating 110 patients—55 of each sex—were completed; thus raising the total accommodation of the Asylum to about 3a0 patients. The patients who during the night occupied these two new dormitory wards were during the day distributed
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