General rules for the management of the London County lunatic asylums.

Date:
[1904]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: General rules for the management of the London County lunatic asylums. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. He shall take no commission, gift, favour or perquisite of any kind whatsoever from any contractor or tradesman supplying goods to the Asylum. 8. He shall prepare and lay before the Sub-Committee at every meeting an account of such articles in the Requisition Book as may be wanted for the household, with an approximate estimate where such articles are not under contract, and shall not order such articles without the written sanction of the Sub- Committee present at such meeting, unless they are urgently required by the Medical Superintendent. 9. He shall examine all stores and articles of daily domestic consumption, and take care that all stores supplied by contract agree with the tenders and samples, and that all other articles are of proper quality ; and shall receive no goods, stores nor provisions into the Asylum, unless it appears to him that such articles correspond with the invoice or receiving note, which shall be signed by him, and be regularly filed by the Clerk of the Asylum ; and he shall obtain no articles from any other than the contractor, except in cases of necessity, in which case he shall report the circumstances to the Sub-Committee at their next meeting. 10. He shall keep such books to show the receipt and con- sumption of all stores and provisions as the Sub-Committee shall direct, and shall be accountable for their correctness. He shall prepare abstracts of the same, to be submitted from time to time to the Sub-Committee, and shall take stock at the end of each quarter ; and once a year or oftener, if required, take an account of all stock, stores and provisions, in order that the same may be checked and certified by the Sub-Committee at their first meeting after such stock-taking, it being understood that, for the purposes of stock-taking in the female wards, this duty shall be performed by the Matron, and the result of same reported to him. 11. He shall keep in a book to be laid before the Sub- Committee at their first meetings in January and July in each year, an inventory of all household goods, fixtures, furniture, dead and live stock, utensils and other effects of the Asylum, and an account of all additions and alterations made therein. 12. He shall have authority to execute any works, the carrying out of which pertains to his department, and it shall be his duty to keep the Asylum Sub-Committee from time to time informed of such works. 13. He shall, before executing any contemplated work in connection with his department, report to the Asylum Sub-