The report of the Committee of Visitors, and Medical Superintendent of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum for the year 1874.

  • Devon County Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1875
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Credit: The report of the Committee of Visitors, and Medical Superintendent of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum for the year 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE No. 15. Showing the average number of Patients employed during the year. (Made up from the Returns of the Head Attendants.) MALES. Tailors,» Shoemakers Carpenters Masons.. Blacksmiths Painters Matmakers «, Coir pickers and emptying and re-filling Bed-ticks .. 10 Working in Laundry .. .. .. 2 Washing men’s clothes .. .. .. 2 Working in kitchen .. .. .. .. 2 Working in stables .. .. .. .. 3 Cleaning wards, corridors, and Chapel .. .. 54 Cleaning airing grounds, &c. .. ., .. 8 Cutting fire-wood .. .. .. .. 1 Assisting Storekeeper .. ., .. 1 ., House-porter .. .. .. 1 ,, Engineer and Stoker .. .. .. 6 „ Brewer ,, ,. .. .. 3 99 Baker . • .. .. .. 2 Attending piggery .. : .. .. 2 Farm labourers .. .. .. .. 20 Working in garden .. .. .. .. 18 Total .. .. 157 3 4 6 2 2 FEMALES. Assisting in wards and employed in other domestic occupations 108 Working in laundry ,. ,. .. .. 31 „ kitchen .. «» .. .. 30 Needle workers .. .» .. 80 • • t •
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