Annual report- 1901 : (in two vols). Vol. 1, Being the report of the Board and the reports of its committees / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1902
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Credit: Annual report- 1901 : (in two vols). Vol. 1, Being the report of the Board and the reports of its committees / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We append hereto (i.) a statement showing the area and appropria- Appendice belonging to the asylums; (ii.) the medical superintendents’ annual reports for 1901 (see pp. 12^-179, Vol. ii.); (iii.) reports by the medical expert and the head schoolmistress and matron of Rochester House (see pp. 147-151, Vol. ii.); (iv.) the reports of the Visiting Lunacy Commissioners as received from the Local Government Board : and (v.) a series of operative resolutions of the nature of standing orders which have been passed by us during the year 1901. Signed on behalf of the Asylums Committee. (Signed) J. R. HILL, Chairman. Statement showing the Area and Appropriation of Land belonging to the Asylums (see note). CATERHAM. LEAVESDEN. DARENTH. Acres. Roods. Poles. Acres. Roods. Poles. Acres. Roods. Poles. ]. Asylum buildings (i.e.,) administrative buildings -- 8 0 0 6 1 23 x and patients’ blocks) ) 1 i 39 f 45 1 2U* 2. Airing courts . 6 0 0 8 3. Ornamental grounds ... 5 1 31 3 0 18 d 4. Recreation grounds . 6 0 12 4 3 3 15 3 2 6. Gasworks . 0 2 33 0 3 38 1 1 Hi 6. Farm buildings . 0 2 28 1 2 0 3 3 39 7. Pasture land.' . 74 0 20 25 0 0 30 l 21 8. Arable land. 36 0 0 8 0 0 86 2 37! 9. Kitchen garden . 6 2 o . 13 0 0 33 1 364 10. Orchard. 1 2 0 2 2 5 5 0 19|f 11. Cemetery . . 0 3 21 1 1 34 1 0 28 12. Other parts, viz. : — (i.) Laundry drying ground (ii.) Cottages and gardens... 0 2 19 0 2 0 0 3 30 (iii.) Chaplain’s house and ^ 2 0 0 “ Firs ” . ) (iv.) Coal sheds, &c ... (V.) Wood . 2 3 28 0 1 0 3 2 28| (vi.) Roads, paths, &c. 3 0 , 0 8 0 0 Totals . 154 1 32 84 0 0 227 3 35 J * Includes roads. t acres of orchard utilised as kitchen garden. t About 63| acres of this total belongs to Gore Farm Hospital, hut is farmed from the asylum. NOTE.—Rochester House and Tooting Bee Asylum have not been included in the table because the first- named place is not the property of the Managers, and is comparatively very small, and the second-named institution has not yet come under the control of the Asylums Committee.