The reports of the Visiting Justices of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell, to the Epiphany Sessions, 1839 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell
Date:
1842
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Credit: The reports of the Visiting Justices of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell, to the Epiphany Sessions, 1839 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECOND REPORT, Presented at the Easter Quarter Session, 1828. YOUR COMMITTEE have to state, that since the 17th of January last, the date of their former Report, they have held fifteen meetings, and given to the important trust which they have undertaken their most anxious attention :—the subjects which have continued to occupy them being, first, the obtaining an eligible site whereon to erect the intended Asylum, and next, the selection of the best three plans for the Building. With respect to Land, your Committee beg to Report, that having, in consequence of Advertisements published by their orders in the Newspapers, and of the inquiries of their Surveyor, received nineteen Tenders in addition to those sub¬ mitted to your Committee previously to the County day of the last Quarter Session, and which amounted in number to thirty- one, they referred such of them as, it appeared to your Com¬ mittee, were not ineligible, to the consideration of their Surveyor; who, after personally inspecting and examining the several Lands included in the Tenders so referred to him, has from time to time laid before your Committee his reports and remarks thereon, particularly with reference to the nature of the soils, the facilities for drainage, and the comparative advantages as re¬ spects healthiness, cheerfulness of situation, and the quality as well as sufficiency of the water :—That your Committee, having taken into consideration their Surveyor’s Reports on all the Tenders referred to him, have thought it proper that they should themselves personally view several of the sites, and, after taking into account their relative advantages, your Committee have
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