The twelfth 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, 1869 : with appendices.

  • Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum
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1870
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Credit: The twelfth 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, 1869 : with appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mously appointed Sarah Perry, formerly Attendant at the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, to he Head Female Attendant at this Asylum, at the yearly salary of <£30. per annum, with board, lodging, and washing; and she commenced the duties of her office on the 13th of September last. During the very unpleasant investigation relative to the charges against the Matron, your Committee became aware of circumstances which induced them to discharge Sarah McCann, the Sempstress of the Asylum, and she, together with four of the Female Attendants left the Asylum; but the vacancies thus occasioned have since been satisfactorily filled up by the Medical Superintendent, and the whole staff of officers and attendants appear now to work together harmoniously. In consequence of abolishing the office of Matron, and substituting for it that of a Head Female Attend¬ ant, your Committee have revised the general Eules of the Asylum to meet these changes, and in their altered state they are now before the Commissioners in Lunacy for their approval, and that of the Secretary of State, as required by the Lunatic Asylums’ Act, 1853. John Beardon, late the brewer and baker of the Asylum, was on the 28th of June last dismissed from his office, for disobeying the order of the Medical Superintendent, by absenting himself from the Asylum. Eichard Eolph, one of the Asylum farm labourers, was on the suggestion of the Medical Superintendent
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