Seventeenth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Seventeenth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It was also found, from the enquiries above alluded to, that the space of cubic feet of air for each Patient on our present numbers, is far below the average scale. Your Committee, with this information before them, at their November Meeting, appointed a Sub-Committee, consisting of the Chairman, Earl Beauchamp, the Mayor of Worcester, Sir Henry Lambert, and Mr. Hemming, “ to consider the best “ way of providing the additional accommodation required, “ whether by extension subject or not to classification, or by “ arrangement with Union Workhouses.” The Sub-Committee gave their most careful consideration to the question in all its bearings, and made the following Report:— “ That owing to the constant and progressive increase of Lunacy, “both in this county and elsewhere, the Committee are most “reluctantly forced to the conclusion that it is imperative for “ them to provide additional accommodation for Male Patients, “ either at Powick, or elsewhere, and looking to the cost of main- “ tenance at Powick, and that charged in other County Asylums to “ out County Patients, the Committee are convinced that the most “ economical course to the ratepayers would be to provide that “ accommodation at Powick, subject however to such classification “ as the Committee of Visitors may hereafter determine.” Your Committee took this Report into their consideration at their December meeting, and it was carried unanimously. But Mr. Hemming moved, and Earl Beauchamp seconded, the following addition to the Report:— “ In recommending this additional building, the Committee of “ Visitors have in view the separation of the Idiot Class, and the “ adoption of such classification as to insure a more reduced cost “of maintenance and attendance with that particular class of “ Patients.” The amendment was lost, three members voting for it, and five against it, and it was thereupon “ Resolved that plans be prepared “ for the erection of an additional building in connection with the “ present building, on its east side, to accommodate 100 Male “ Patients.”