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
Date:
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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    that the opinion of a competent engineer should be obtained as to the best mode of distributing the sewage in a fresh state by gravitation, a process which is now carried out with great success and profit at several County Asylums, and without any injurious or unpleasant effects. It is our duty again to press very strongly upon the con¬ sideration of the Committee of Visitors the subject of the appointment of an Assistant-Medical Officer, as in our opinion an Institution of this size and description should never at any time be left without the presence of a medical man. As to the u Visitation and Management”, with regard to which we are directed by the Statute to enquire, we have to report that the Committee visit very regularly, and devote much time and attention to the regulation of the Asylum and to its inmates, and that the Medical Superintendent continues to discharge his onerous duties with zeal and ability. (Signed) W. Gr. CAMPBELL, ) Commissioners JOHN D. CLEATON,] in Lunacy.
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