The twenty-second annual report of the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bracebridge, near Lincoln.

  • Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum at Bracebridge.
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The twenty-second annual report of the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bracebridge, near Lincoln. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their maintenance is covered by the usual weekly-rate, and the difference, which was previously charged to the Fabric Fund, is thereby saved. Additions have been made to the House of the Engineer of the Asylum at the cost of £378, and the payment of this sum, and the ordinary expenses of the fabric, have rendered it necessary for the Visitors to levy rates during the year amounting to i?2300. The average weekly-rate for the past year has been 9s. 9fd., as against 9s. 5|d. in the preceding year. Within the last few months complaints have been made to the Visitors that water largely charged with sewage matter escapes from the irrigation field into the Upper Witham ; and they have received a communica¬ tion from the Deputy Town Clerk of Lincoln with a copy of a Resolution, in which it is alleged that the sewage from the Asylum is discharged into the Witham at a point above that from which the Water supply of the City is drawn. The Visitors hope, that, if at any time water tainted with sewage has passed from the Sewage Field into the Witham (of which, however, they have no know¬ ledge) it has been due to some accidental circumstance, and cannot properly be charged against the system which has been adopted for disposal of the sewage of the Asylum, which, if carefully and properly worked, would allow nothing to escape from the Sewage Field into the Witham which would interfere with the purity of the water; and they have accordingly given directions that the utmost care shall be taken to ensure the