The special report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch
Date:
1858
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Credit: The special report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IH (titles ex. TO HER MAJESTY’S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUITY OF MIDDLESEX, IN GENERAL SESSION ASSEMBLED. The Special Report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch. The new buildings at this Asylum being now rapidly approaching to completion, your Committee found it necessary to ascertain as nearly as circumstances would allow, what further sum of money would be required to provide for additional works not comprised in the origi¬ nal grant from the Court. They accordingly gave notice on the last County Day, that application would be made on the 2nd. of December, for a grant of £10,000. to carry these objects into execution. They think it will be the proper course now, to enable the Justices to judge of the propriety of the charges likely to be in¬ curred, and of the necessity of doing certain works prior to increasing the number of patients on the 1st of January, to lay before the Court the following details. Your Committee would premise that none of these works were comprised in the original estimate, most, if not all of them, being of such a character, that it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to form a correct idea of their probable cost. The Court were informed at an early period, that negotiations were long pending between the Commissioners in Lunacy and your Com¬ mittee, as to the original plans, and that it was abso¬ lutely necessary to give way in various particulars, as the Commissioners intimated in plain terms, that if the suggestions of their architect were not acceded to, they should recommend the Secretary of State to refuse his sanction to the plans altogether. The Court is aware
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