Annual report for the year 1904 (7th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1905
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1904 (7th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX I. OPERATIVE RESOLUTIONS OE THE NATURE OE STANDING ORDERS PASSED BY THE ASYLUMS COMMITTEE DURING 1904. (1.) Visitors to Assistant Medical Officers. That the regulations of the Managers respecting visitors to principal officers do apply to all assistant medical officers in the Asylum service. [18th January, p. 22.] (2.) Returns of Expenditure and Temporary Staff. By resolution, these returns, which are submitted to the Asylums Committee at each ordinary meeting, stand referred to the Special Purposes Sub-Committee for consideration and for the submission of any observations the Sub-Committee may have to make upon them. [18th January, p. 14.] (3.) Soap. That in future the soaps used at the Managers’ asylums be yellow or mottled soap and soft soap for patients’ use, for use in laundries or for household purposes, with toilet soap for the principal officers, medical staff, and Managers, and medicated soap for medical use where necessary; and that “sicco ” be used in the laundries for washing flannels, &c., and that the Contract Committee be asked to arrange for the supply of this preparation under contract. [15th February, p. 36.] That the Accountant be informed that the Asylums Committee’s resolution of the 15th February, 1904, with regard to the soap to be used at the Managers’ asylums is to be interpreted to mean that both yellow and mottled soap, or either of those soaps, may be used ; and that the necessary instructions in the matter be issued to the principal officers of the asylums. [10th October, p. 187.] (4.) Cleaning of Boilers. All boilers or heaters supplying hot water for draw-off purposes are to be cleaned out every three months where practicable. [11th April, p. 69.] (5) Allowance of Gas to Gate Porters. That the quantity of gas allowed to the gate porters at the asylums be reduced to the quantity allowed to other employees under the Artisans’ Wages Scale in force for the time being, and that the gas consumed in the gate porters’ offices be excluded from such allowance. [4th July, p. 146.] (6.) Promotion of Ordinary Attendants to be Deputy Charge Attendants. That, in the opinion of the Asylums Committee, no ordinary attendant should be promoted to be deputy charge attendant, save in exceptional cases, until he or she has completed three years’ service in the former capacity. [4.th July, p. 146.] (7.) Loss of Staff Furniture Keys. That each member of the subordinate staff throughout the Asylums’ service be required to sign an undertaking to pay Is. if he or she should lose a key appertaining to an article of staff furniture. [26th September, p. 183.] (8.) Transfers from Tooting Bec Asylum. That, as often as necessary, the practice hitherto generally adopted of transferring (a) to Leavesden Asylum only those patients who are chargeable to parishes and unions in the northern half of the Metropolis, and (b) to Caterham Asylum only those patients who are chargeable to the parishes and unions south of the river, must be disregarded. [10th October, p. 190.]
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