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

  • St. John's Hospital (Stone, Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
1856
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Credit: Third annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    D which, creates a greater heat, but, unless selected and used with great care is liable to injure the boilers. “ That there appears to be a material difference in Mr. Price’s arrangement at the two Asylums as regards two points ; and your Sub-Committee are of opinion that these two points are sufficient to account for the greater amount of heat at¬ tainable at Colney Hatch, when that amount is numbered by a few Degrees (those few Degrees however being of the utmost importance to the comfort and health of the Patients).—1. That, by the account of the Colney Hatch Officers, there is under each gallery double the extent of heating flues, i.e. two flues, one under each side of the gallery instead of one flue under the centre of the gallery, and that the heat has thus less distance to travel before entering the galleries, and twice as much hot pipe ; there being two pipes in each flue, wdiether at Colney Hatch or at Stone.-^-2. That it appears that each apparatus warms four galleries, and that in each gallery there are three open fire-places, of large size, each consuming, by the statement of the resident Engineer, not less than half* a cwt. per day, or in the aggregate six cwt. per day in addition to each furnace. It was indeed represented to your Sub-Committee that these fires were in use for the sake of cheerfulness only, and not in aid of the furnaces; but no recorded experiments were given in proof of this view of the case, and it certainly seems most improbable either that so large a consumption of fuel should be sanctioned for this minor end, or that no perceptible effect should be produced by it. “ That nothing transpired during their enquiries at Colney Hatch to cause any doubt of the accuracy of the conclusion at which the Committee had arrived that Mr. Price’s Boilers are on an inferior principle of construction and such as is not called for by any peculiarity in the work to be done. “ Finally, your Sub-Committee beg to point out that your consideration of the deficiency of heat in some of your wards may properly take a two fold or alternative form.—1. As to the actual increase of heat by the addition of open fire places or the like.—2. As to the diminution of the waste of heat by any im¬ provement in the construction of the windows, the thickness of the glass, &c. “ (Signed) “ Gr. CAltBINGTOIST, Jr. “GEO. PHILLIMORE. “May, 1855.” The Committee are still of opinion that an undue consumption of Coal is caused by the defective construction of Mr. Price’s Boilers. The general health of the Patients has been excellent, and proving the Site to have been in this respect admirably suited to the purpose. Every effort is made to afford full employment to all those Inmates who are in any degree capable of it.