The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1867.

  • Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Charminster, England)
Date:
1868
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Credit: The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1867. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    source, to close that account. The whole of the moneys received and paid on the building and furnishing account are as follows :— Receipts. £ s. d. To Cash borrowed of the Sun Life Insurance Office, on mortgage of the County Rates 41,000 0 0 To Interest on Exchequer Bills 507 14 0 Sir R. P. Glyn’s Donation with interest ... 1,102 4 6 Sale of Stock from Contingent Fund 1,028 8 1 Contingent Fund Current Account 515 3 9 Subscriptions to Non-Pauper Fund 2,000 0 0 County Treasurer, part of vote of £1,000 at Quarter Sessions 400 0 0 Non-Pauper and Out-County Patients, Surplus Fund... 3,647 8 11 Balance due to Mr. Gregory ... 177 8 3 £50,378 7 6 • Expenditure. Paid for Land 5,710 7 10 Buildings (including repairs at Forston Asylum, about £350) 32,512 19 1 Engineering, including Well 6,086 18 3 Furniture 2,559 14 1 Roads, fencing trees, &c. 561 7 2 Law Expenses, including Procuration Fees on Loan... 404 16 3 Stationery and Advertisements 18 7 5 A.rclnt6ct ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 1,892 18 0 Clerk of the Works ... 508 4 2 Sundries 32 11 0 Interest to Bank 90 4 3 £50,378 7 6 It is to be observed that of the above sum about £350 was spent upon repairs at the Forston Asylum, found necessary when it was decided to retain it as one of the County Asylums, making the whole expenditure on the Asylum and grounds at Charminster, as near as may be, £50,000, of which the County has been charged with the sum of £41,400; and also that the above expenditure includes the cost of various improvements, alterations, and