Fortieth annual report of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1892, and financial statements, 1992-93.

  • County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Fortieth annual report of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1892, and financial statements, 1992-93. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    account of serious illness, had for some months previously been unable to perform his duties, and to whom in the hope that he might be restored to health and be able to resume them, your Committee had granted a prolonged leave of absence, was reported by your Medical Superintendent to be in such a state of health as to render him permanently incapacitated to further discharge the onerous and responsible duties of Asylum Clerk, an opinion which was confirmed by that of another medical practitioner, who saw Mr. Jenkins at the Committee’s instance. In these circumstances your Committee was compelled to supersede Mr. Jenkins, and in his place they appointed Mr. John Greenfield Hadley, who had for some years satisfactorily and efficiently discharged the duties of Storekeeper, as Asylum Clerk, at a salary commencing with £150 per annum. Your Committee, in pursuance of the authority given to them by the 280th Section of the Lunacy Act, unanimously resolved to grant Mr. Jenkins a Life pension of £132 per annum, subject to such grant being sanctioned by the County and City Councils under Section 281 of the same Act, which sanction was subsequently obtained. Your Committee feel that they cannot allow Mr. Jenkins’ long connection with the Asylum and his faithful services to terminate without here recording the words of the resolution which they passed at their Monthly Meeting, when the above pension was granted, and it was unanimously resolved — “That the Committee desire to record their “sense of the services rendered by Mr. Jenkins to “ the Asylum during the 30 years he had discharged “ the very responsible and laborious duties as Clerk “ —the care and accuracy with which he always kept “ the Accounts of the Institution—a part of his “ duties to which the Asylum Auditor, Mr. F. A. “ Wheeler, has already borne testimony—and his “constant and unremitting efforts to do all in his “ power to promote the welfare of the Asylum and “ the comfort of the Patients.” It is to the care and assiduity of Officers of the Asylum who discharge their duties as Mr. Jenkins did that the Asylum owes in a great measure the character it has attained for efficiency and good results. Mr. Hadley having been appointed to the post of Asylum Clerk, your Committee appointed to the Office of Storekeeper, vacated by Mr. Hadley, Mr. Ernest Edward Doughty, who up to that time had acted as Clerk to the Medical Superintendent—that post being filled by the appointment of Mr. William Westbury, who now acts in that capacity. 5.—The following is the Table of attendance of the Committee during the past year :—