Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1858 together with the superintendent's eleventh annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1858 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1857 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.

  • North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
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1858
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire : presented at the Epiphany quarter sessions for the respective ridings, 1858 together with the superintendent's eleventh annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1858 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1857 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mechanical work executed by the Male Attendants and Patients (continued). Making 1 partition to dead-house, 10 ft. by 7 ft. ,, wood work for 2 new carts ,, 1 pair shafts to water cart „ new body to garden cart „ 17 ft. of rails and hooks to harness room The glazing is done by the Joiner. Painter’s 'Work. Shoemakers’ shop, 2 coats 10 out doors, grained oak 10 trough bedsteads stained and varnished 50 birch bedsteads oiled and varnished 22 iron bedsteads, 2 coats 8 wash stands, 2 coats 12 night stools stained and varnished 6 coal boxes, 2 coats 3 carts, 3 coats 1 cupboard stained and varnished 3 wheel barrows, 2 coats Smith’s shop, 1 coat Pump shed, 1 coat New 3 stalled stable, 2 coats 6 sets of portable clothes shelves stained and varnished Lodge gates varnished 8 rustic chairs varnished Steam engine varnished 1 plough, 2 coats 1 turnip drill, 2 coats 2 harrows, 2 coats 4 coal house doors, 2 coats Cooking apparatus, 1 coat 12 dining tables, 2 coats Partition in dead house, 3 coats 1 clothes closet for tailors’ shop, 1 coat 96 buckets, 2 coats and lettered Iron pump for sewage, 3 coats 17 forms, 3 coats 2 fire guards, 1 coat 2 flower stands, 1 coat 2 towel horses, 2 coats 1 commode for tailors’ shop stained and varnished 674 square yards, 3 coats 34 window sashes, 1 coat Bricklayers and Stonemasons’ Work. White-washing the whole of the Asylum, offices and out-buildings and some parts twice Building 4.^ roods of brick and stone work for steps in front of Asylum Working 125 feet stone quoins and setting 5) 76 „ stringing do. » 45 „ coping do. >> 90 „ steps do. Squaring 9 yards of tooled flag, paving and _ laying Fixing hot water boiler in brickwork com¬ plete Excavating 30 yards, 2 feet deep, for drain¬ age in drying yard Building 6 brick traps and working and fixing grate stones to do. Cobble paving 270 yards in drying yard Working 62 yards of dressed stone edging for do. „ 10 „ „ for paving for do. Building 4| roods of brick and stone wall in do. Working 50 feet stone steps and setting do. ,, 38 ,, coping to stone steps do. Building 90 ,, brick foundations for sleepers to straw-house *