Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1874 / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1875?]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1874 / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J9 ♦ “ the event of this Engine being out of working order at the time not only of a Fire, but of the Water for domestic and general purposes being low in the Tanks, the power of supplying a considerable addition of Water would be suspended until the Engine was repaired ;—a process which might be fatal to the pre¬ cautionary measures in view. Not however, that the expence of a new Engine should be hastily incurred, if, as your Committee are informed, it is not im¬ probable that the Scheme of the City of Oxford for conveying Water to different points from a Reservoir to the north of the Asylum may ensure to it a con¬ stant additional supply by gravitation. JOHN A. FANE. JOHN RICHD. CARR. JOHN PHILLIPS BARFORD.” And, upon the Report being presented to the November Meeting of the Visitors, they Resolved to adopt the general measures suggested by it, and to execute them at once so far as respects the Pipes, Hydrants, and Hand Fire-Engines &c., and some inexpensive addition to the Pumping power at the Engine House,—leaving the questions of Signals, and of a second Steam-Engine, to be determined after the other Works are completed. And the purchase of all the Articles and Materials, and the execution of the Works in question by Mr. Cobb and Mr. Ashley without the aid, as is trusted, of other Mechanics than the ordinary Staff of the Asylum, was committed to the direction of Captain Fane, Mr. Alderman Carr, and the Mayor of Ban¬ bury (Mr. Barford): this Sub-Committee being requested to exercise occasional personal
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