Sixth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • St. John's Hospital (Stone, Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
[1859]
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Credit: Sixth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SSttrlvS (til mil).—To Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace assembled at the General Quarter Session oe the Peace to be holden at AylEseury, in and for the said County, on Monday, the 3rd Day of January, 1859. THE REPORT OE THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS APPOINTED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE LUNATIC ASYLUM AT STONE, FOR THE PAUPER LUNATICS OF THE COUNTY. Under the Statute 16th & 17th Victoria, Cap. 97, Sec. 62. Sheweth,—That your Committee at the commencement of their year of Office could not fail to notice the loss which they had sustained by the retirement of C. T. Gaskell, Esq., Wm. Pennington, Esq., The Rev. John Harrison, and The Rev. Richard Townsend from the Office of Visitors. By the subsequent lamented death of Mr. Gaskell the County has moreover been deprived of the earnest, faithful, and independent services of one who was always zealous in his endeavours conscientiously to dis¬ charge the duties of his position. Your Committee append to their Report a copy of the Minute made by the Commissioners in Lunacy, at their recent visit on the 21st of Decem¬ ber last, in allusion to which, as well as to the Minute made by the Com¬ missioners in the year 1857, (a copy of which is contained in the last Annual Report), your Committee found that necessity existed for making considerable outlay from time to time for additions and alterations in various parts of the Asylum, and, as it did not appear to them that the