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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    her place, thus effecting a considerable annual saying to the Institution. Having regard to the allegation of the Medical Superintendent and as Mr. Norman was about to vacate his office, your Committee determined on appointing a professional Accountant, to examine the Asylum accounts, thinking that course just towards Mr. Nor¬ man, as well as your Committee, and accordingly Messrs. Kennedy and Meggy, Accountants of Old Jewry Chambers, London, were appointed, and after a careful examination of the accounts, they on the 13th of September last presented a long report of the result of their investigation, by which they stated that in their opinion the accounts of Mr. Norman, as Clerk and Steward of the Asylum, were satisfactory, but that those of Mrs. Norman were fallacious. In answer to advertisement a large number of applications for the joint offices of Clerk and Steward were received, and a Sub-Committee appointed for the purpose selected from those three Candidates to at¬ tend your Committee on the 30th of August last, on which day Mr. Charles Frederick Williams, formerly Assistant-Steward at the Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, was elected Clerk and Steward of the Asylum, at a salary of £100. per annum, with board, washing, and lodging; and he accordingly commenced the duties of his office on the 13th of September last, on which day Mr. Norman vacated that office and transferred the books and stores to Mr. Williams. Your Committee on the 3rd of August last unani-
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