Report on lunatic asylums / by Fredc. Norton Manning.
- Manning, Frederick Norton, 1839-1903.
- Date:
- 1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report on lunatic asylums / by Fredc. Norton Manning. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![Soil—But little choice has heen exeiviscd as regardf? soil. In the list given below, we have asylums standing on clay, gravel, chalk, sand, and other strata :— Sussex Whealden clay, Essex gravel, Worcester clay, Three Counties clay—chalk subsoil. New Surrey, Brookvvood sharp gravel, Colney HaU-h clay, Derby sand, Bristol City millstone grit, New Stafford gravel, Northampton iron-stone; and abn)ad the nature of the subsoil is equally various. A.specf.—'Hie great majority of European and American asylums IVont the south or soutli-east. Occasionally, as at PrestNvich near Manchester, the fi-ontage is to the south-west; and in other asylums a slight change in the aspect of the building has been made, because of peculiarities in the form of the ground on which it stands. Distance from Town.—A few asylums—such as Bethlehem, a)id the Feiualc .\s)lum at Ghent—were originally placed in towns; but the greater Jinmber of tho.se which now occupy ui-bau or suburban positions, were formerly at a small distance from the town, which iu its growth has encroached upon them. This has been the case at Leicester, Northampton, Stafford, Gloucester, and rrestwich, at St. Yon, Houen, and Charenton, Paris, where the asylums are now in close ])roximity to the town. Eor the large majority of new asylums, country sites have been chosen at a distance ranging from one to five miles from the town. The followino; table will show the distance from town, with tlu^ railway communication, of a lunnber of English asylums. The distances .are approximate only ; it was almost impossible to obtain them with exactness :— Name. Place. Nearest F.arge Town. Distance. Railway Station. Gloucester Couiily Worcester ,, StiiHord ., New Stafford „ Derby „ Liiicobi ,, Leicester ., (') Lancashire „ (2) Essex „ (-) Three Counties—Beds, Herts, and Hunts (-■) Middlesex Xew Surrey Sussex Bristol Borough Coton Hill L. Hospital. Northampton L. „ . York L. ,, . Leicester L. „ . Friends' Retreat L. „ . Criminal A.sjlum Tdiofc Q-loucester Powiek Stafford Burutwood Mickleover Bracebridgc Jjeicester Pi'estwich Brentwood Arlesly Colney Hatch , Brook wood Hayward's Heath.., Stapleton Coton Hill Northampton York Lincoln York Broadmoor ^ Eastwood Grioucester.... Worcester .... Stafford .... Lichfield Derby Lincoln Leicester Mancliester . Brentwood . Hitchin London London Brighton Bristol Stafford Northampton York Lincobi York Wokingham . London Reigatc Suburbs 4 miles Suburbs 4 miles 5 „ 2i Suburbs 4 miles Suburbs 4 mil cs 12 .,♦ 4 „ 1 mile 1 „ Suburbs Suburbs Suburbs 5 miles 30 „ 3 „ 1 mile. 4 „ 1 „ 5 „ 1 4 ,, 1 .. At Asylum. 3 miles. 4 „ ^ >) )) 1 M 1 1 „ 4 9 iiKMARKS.—(') Omnibus communication with Manchester. Sub\irbs extend almost to asylum («) These asylums are within easy reach of London, and trains are frequent.' A tramway ptafcion to Colney Hatch imd the Three Counties Asylums; and coals, stores, and 8C brought to t)ie ftsvhmi by it. runs from the nearest sometimes patients, are](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21292450_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
