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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![Land. The Table given below will show, as accurately aa it was possible to ascertain, tlie amount of land possessed by various asylums in Europe and America, and the amounts under cultivation as farm and garden. Asylum. Po])ula- tion. Worcester Count v Sussex ,, Essex „ Tliree Count ieu New Surrey Middlesex County Gloucester Derby Lanciwsliire ,, Leicester „ Statford Stafford Lincoln ,, Bristol Borough Coton Hill L. Hospital Nortliuinpton „ Retreat, York ,, Elgin District Pertli New GUI Haddington Fife Montrose Royal Government Hospital, Washington. Pennsylvania State ... Northampton (Mass.) State. I New Jersey State New York Evreux, J)epartenient Eure. Quatre Mares, De- partement Seine Inferieure. St. Anne, Dept. Sehic Ville Evrard, do. Vaucluse, do. Colony of Fitz James, at Clermont. Meerenberg, Holland Guislaiu's Glient. Hamburg lllenau ... Frankfort Gottingeu Asylum, 570 700 580 528 150 2,000 590 380 1,000 400 520 520 500 200 140 450 130 80 220 100 213 380 380 350 417 500 618 500 700 000 600 600 1,400 600 468 350 450 200 300 Pleasure Grounds, incliidiuj Airing Courts. 20 30* 10 20 80 10 50* 25 15 17 10 14 10 15 28* 12 2 7 30 105 18 45 GO 20 15 20 12 10 30 70 10 16 35 35 51 14 40 6 40 10 10 10 100 40 52 140* 90* Arable, Pa.sture. including' Garden. Total. 50 100 76 216* 35 35 50 20 51* 20 30* 12 30 50* 12* 70* 10 40 70 25 23 50 20 45 30 30 Hemarka. 100* 200 96 252 150 150 80 100 96 80 100 77* 40 32 80 75 30 92 60 12 57 110 230 130 200 120 200 150 100 14 750 700 1,000 70 35 65 42 40 20 *40 acres are rented. ♦Includes plantation and wood. *Garden, 54 acres. Farm not yet formed. *Includc8 pasture. *Spade cultivation. Farm not yet made. *40 acres rented. *Spade cultivation only. *Spade cultivation only. *Spade cultivation only. Plea- sure grounds include pasture *Spade cultivation only. Farm not yet complete. *30 acres I'ented annually. *70 acres park and woodland ; in treaty for 150 more. *Farm under plough, 30 acres. 25 acres woodland. 30 do *pasture & -.irable, 30 do * do 1 Lake, 1 acre. 5 a<Tes woodland. * These figures have been calculated from the amounts given in French hectares: 1 French hectare 2-471 acres. The proportion of land per patient varies greatly; but the advantages attendluf^ the possession of a good asylum estate, are evidently becoming more appreciated sincS the newer asylums have, as a rule, larger grounds than those founded durincr the last](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21292450_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
