Fourth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum at Brookwood, to be presented to the Court of Quarter Session, held at Reigate, on the 4th day of April, 1871.

  • Surrey County Lunatic Asylum (Brookwood)
Date:
[1871?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fourth annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum at Brookwood, to be presented to the Court of Quarter Session, held at Reigate, on the 4th day of April, 1871. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the Laundry dejoartment a considerable saving of fuel has been effected by altering the mode of heating the drying closets. The construction of the new Load on the south side of the Canal, through the land belonging to the Necropolis Com¬ pany, having been completed, the roadway which intersected the south portion of the Asylum estate, and was becoming a great nuisance, was closed on July 4th, and by making the grounds more private has been of material benefit to the Institution. On the north and west sides the recently acquired land has been fenced in, and a belt of plantation has been commenced along the boundary. The only portion of the estate now not bounded by public roads or by the Canal is a short length on the north-west side. The past year has been essentially one of quiet progress in the affairs of the Institution, without the occurrence of any serious casualty to mar the general harmony that has existed. Although minor alterations and improvements, to make the buildings, &c., better fitted for their purpose will constantly suggest themselves, the two great additions which are much required to make the present Establishment practically complete, consist of a Recreation Hall and a Detached Hospital Ward. I have already adverted to the great need of them in this as well as in previous reports; and if I bring the subject more j)]oniinently under your notice it is because the every day experience of Asylum life serves but to corroborate the conviction of their urgent necessity.