Sussex County Lunatic Asylum Haywards Heath annual report : 1889

  • Great Britain. Sussex County Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1889
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Credit: Sussex County Lunatic Asylum Haywards Heath annual report : 1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Home Secretary) into a contract with the Committee of Visitors of the Asylum at Berry Wood, in the County of Northampton, for the reception of 85 patients into that Asylum at a charge of 14s. a week for each patient. Shortly after the date of the contract the patients were safely conveyed from Haywards Heath to Berry Wood, and they have since been visited there by the Chairman of your Committee, who found that every arrangement had been made for their care and treatment. The contract with the Committee at Berry Wood will continue for two years from the 18th July last, as the sanction of the Home Secretary extended only to this period. , The two acres of land in the Two Topt Wood which the Councils recently authorised the Committee to hold as an extension of the existing Burial Ground has been cleared, levelled, and planted. paid an official visit to the Asylum, and on the 18th and roth of that month the Commissioners in Lunacy made their statutory visit and left a satisfactory report. The Asylum Accounts will in future be made up to _the 31st day of March in each year, pursuant to the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1888. During the past year your Committee have improved the means of warming the Infirmary single rooms and the Male corridor, and these improvements have materially added to the comfort of the patients. Your Committee are desirous of making certain Pe ere er err ae ee, See ee ee, em ee Le en Mee See ee ey