Twelfth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1844.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester.
Date:
1844
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Twelfth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1844. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    7/112 (page 7)
    the Hospital,—for which purpose about twenty-eight thousand dollars have been already paid, and about fifteen thousand eight hundred dol¬ lars, in cash and in good funds, remain to pay for what has been done and for what is to be done to finish the wings agreeably to said resolves, and for furnishing the same. These new wings, one for males and the other for females, are each of them in the form of an L, and extend nearly on a line with the former front of the Hospital, and in the same direction each way one hundred feet, making the building in front two hundred feet longer than before. The centre building is seventy-six feet long. The two old front wings are each one hundred and twenty- four feet long. The new wings extend their front each way one hun¬ dred feet, making the whole front five hundred and twenty-four feet. The lateral wings extend backward ; the old lateral wings each from front to rear one hundred and thirty-six feet. The new lateral wings extend from the extreme front backward ; the new wing for males, from front to rear, one hundred feet. The new lateral wing for females only seventy-five feet, being as long as the Trustees calculated the funds appropriated would complete and furnish. The centre building is four stories high, and the wings are three stories, exclusive of the basement, which contains the kitchens, rooms for attendants, &c., and of the attic. The Johonnot Hall is seventy-six feet long, and the chap¬ el, which is a continuation of the same line of building, is forty feet,— both extending from the rear of the centre building one hundred and sixteen feet. On each side of the chapel are infirmaries and other rooms extending each way to the male and female central wings, and forming a hollow square or yard on each side of the Johonnot Hall. The whole, when completed, will afford good accommodations for four hundred patients and their attendants. The whole number of patients that have been admitted into the Hos¬ pital from the beginning is 2013. The whole number that have been discharged, including those that have died, is 1750. There remain now, at the end of the year, 263 patients. The number admitted the past year has been 236. The number discharged 228, of whom 124 have recovered and 15 have died. Leaving at the Hospital 8 more pa¬ tients at the close of the year than at its commencement. The produce of the farm has been large, and chiefly consumed upon the premises. Much of the work in the shoe-shop is for the use of the patients. The cabinet furniture, the matresses, and the linen for the new wings, have been prepared by those of the household. R. Newton, Esq. has been employed by the Trustees as council, and