The fifth annual report of the North Wales Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year m.dccc.liii.

  • North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1854
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Credit: The fifth annual report of the North Wales Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year m.dccc.liii. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE. The House Committee of Visitors of the United Counties Asylum in North Wales have much pleasure, on presenting this their fifth report, in being able to congratulate those by whom they were appointed upon the conti¬ nued satisfactory state of the Institution. In consequence of the liberal donation of Townshend Mainwaring, Esq. of £.200 for the purpose of the erection of works for the supply of gas to the Institution—an object, the want of which, during the long cheerless evenings of winter, had been much deplored in the previous reports—the Board of Visitors had been stimulated to avail themselves of the power afforded to them by the recent legislative enactment, and have by these means erected works by which ISO lights are supplied at a cost, exclusive of the grant of Mr. Mainwaring, of £364 10s. 10c?. They must express to the counties the gratification they feel at the economy with which this has been accomplished—as compared with the only other joint counties asylum with which they arc acquainted, and of the expenses of which they have details before them, they are enabled to state that the cost of this apparatus is less than that by between two and three hundred pounds. They attribute this in some degree to an advantageous purchase of an apparatus in this neighbourhood, well adapted for the purposes of the Asylum, and which was not required by the owner; but at the same time, they cannot help feeling that much is due to the strict enquiry made as to the cost of the different articles required, as well as to the moderate sum at which the suitable buildings were erected. The House Committee must repeat their recommendation to the Board of Visitors, and that too with a more cheering prospect of success, for the erection of additional accommodations for laundry, wash-house, and mangling room. This they consider as the first essential. The construc¬ tion of the buildings at present used for these purposes is very defective.
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