Twenty-ninth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • St. John's Hospital (Stone, Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
[1882]
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Credit: Twenty-ninth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The great decrease in Out County Patients is due to the return of 33 Males and 15 females to Moulsford and Littlemore Asylums on the expiration of contracts. The vacant beds at present are 49 in the Male, and 14 in the Female division. Of the Patients discharged in the ordinary sense 15 Males and 21 Females had recovered. The causes of the deaths were of an ordinary character, and the death rate has not been excessive. There has been no Contagious or Infectious Disorder, and no serious casualty, and no Inquest has been held. 4 he Returns of Numbers usefully employed, attending Divine Service &c., which we have called for, present no new feature calling for remark. The Patients not going beyond the Airing Courts are about one fourth of the entire number. There are no structural improvements, beyond the alteration of closets already noticed, to report. 4 he alterations in the Mortuary suggested by our Colleagues last year, have however been effected. Four years ago our Colleagues who inspected this Asylum, called attention to the absence of all means of extinguishing Fire. We regret to say that beyond the three or four Garden Engines mentioned in a subsequent entry no means have yet been supplied. This is a subject which should engage the early attention of the Visitors, and in connec¬ tion with it the question of V ater supply appears to press. We learn to-day that further analysis has shewn the Rain Water collected from the roofs to be the least pure of that used; yet this goes into the general reservoirs, and forms, with the Water derived from the well and from a spring, one general supply for alimentary as well as other use. We think the Rain Water should be separated and reserved for Laundry purposes alone. (Signed) C. S. Bagot, ) Commissioners W . Rhys Williams,] in Lunacy.