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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    buildings; and that we shall be able also to fill up the beds which will not be occupied by Patients from our own County, with Out-patients from neighbouring Counties, and from which source a considerable profit may be hoped to be derived. The removal of the Balsall Heath Patients to Asylums under the control of the Council of the City of Birmingham, to which the District of Balsall Heath is now annexed, vacated a number of beds in our Asylum, reducing the overcrowding and allowing of the recall of the Patients boarded out at the Derby Borough Asylum. Considering that the Asylum is at present nearly full, that there are Patients still out under contract, and that there is a steady increase in the number of Patients sent to the Asylum for years past, the provision we are making for the accommodation at Powick, of additional Patients, cannot be said to be either unnecessary or uncalled for. In consequence of our being shortly able to provide for our own Patients in our own Asylum, we have given to the Committee of Management of the Joint Counties Asylum at Abergavenny, where 25 Patients from Powick are now boarded out, notice of our intention to terminate the agreement with them. We desire to notice the courtesy and consideration which in this matter we have received at the hands of the Joint Counties Committee. The three pairs of Cottages mentioned in our last Eeport, have for some time past been completed, and are now in the occupation of Asylum Attendants, facilitating, not only the discharge of their duties, but operating also to the advantage of the management of the Asylum generally. 10.—The question of providing the Asylum with a better and purer supply of water has not ceased to engage the atten¬ tion of your Committee, and they have been, and are still, in communication with the Local Authorities of both Worcester and Malvern on the subject, and we hope that we shall be able to carry out satisfactory arrangements with one of those bodies, by which the objections to the present source of supply, and its use for the purposes of the Asylum, will be removed. 11.—The Auditor of the Local Government Board com¬ pleted his audit of the Accounts of the Asylum for the year ending the 31st March, 1892, in the month of December last, but his Eeport has not yet been received. The question raised by him in his Eeport on the accounts for the previous year, as to the rate which the various Unions, whose Patients were boarded out at another Asylum, should contribute for their maintenance, has been satisfactorily adjusted. Mr. Eoberts’ opinion in this respect having been confirmed by the Local Government Board, the several Unions interested in the matter have fallen in therewith.