Report of the Committee of Visitors and fifteenth annual report of the Medical Superintendent of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts.

  • Wiltshire County Asylum.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors and fifteenth annual report of the Medical Superintendent of the asylum for the insane poor of the County of Wilts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    that the sewage may be driven to the liighest part of the land lately added to the Asylum Farm. As an experiment, draining tiles have been purchased for 250 yards, and if this succeeds, of which no doubt is entertained, the sewage will then be carried over the remainder. NIGHT ATTENDANCE. A considerable addition to the cost of in-maintenance has been incurred by the formation of a staff of nurses and others for night attendance upon the patients, in compliance with the urgent and pressing recommen- dations of the Commissioners in Lunacy. On this subject the Medical Superintendent will, with more propriety, speak in his report. chaplain's report. The usual religious services have been performed in the chapel, but the Chaplain will present his own report on this subject. CONDITION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE HOUSE. Your Committee, in compliance with the regulations in the Act of Parliament on the subject, have given a pension to the old Porter, who from infirmity and advancing years, had become incapable of performing the duties of his place. The Committee conclude their report by recording their satisfaction with the condition and management of the Asylum. The quarterly reports of the Visitors, and the monthly reports of the House Committee, state that the wards and patients have been