Twenty-eighth annual reports for 1886 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1887
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Credit: Twenty-eighth annual reports for 1886 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cottages. Changes in Staff. formerly, and the increased and increasing difficulties thereby entailed on the staff. The Medical Superin¬ tendent was compelled, therefore, to apply, early in the year, for an augmentation in numbers of the Female Nursing Staff, which the Committee at once saw the necessity for, and granted, and an extra nurse was engaged for each of the wards for acute cases. This increase in numbers, however, involved finding bedroom accommodation for the new comers, which was effected by moving the laundry maids from the rooms they had occupied in the wards, and building rooms for them contiguous to the Laundry. This arrangement, which was executed by the Asylum Staff, temporarily augmented, at a small outlay, not only found the necessary room in a suitable situation for the new nurses, but located the laundry maids in a much more convenient position for their labours, and for the efficient and economical working of the Laundry. The only other improvement of importance under¬ taken during the year has been the erection of two cottages (semi-detached), near the Homestead, for two of the farm labourers, those previously occupied by these men being in a dilapidated condition, and very inconveniently situated. The only change amongst the Senior Staff has been in the election of Mr. M. O. Manson to the post of Junior Assistant Medical Officer, in the place of Dr. Richard Miller, who resigned to take up another branch of the profession. Mr. Manson entered on his duties on December the ist. The changes amongst the Under Nurses and Attendants continue to be more numerous than is desirable, but
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