Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum to 31st December, 1849 : with appendix.

  • Bedford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum to 31st December, 1849 : with appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “There is still no chapel attached to the Asylum; but the Chaplain at¬ tends regularly on Sundays and Holidays, when he reads the appropriate service, and delivers a sermon, and is attended by a congregation of about 100 patients, “The wash-house appears tc us to be very inconvenient as well as inade quate to the wants of the Establishment. The Visitors’ room is also very small and incommodious. “We examined the diet, and tasted the provisions, and we saw the patients in several of the wards at dinner. The dinner consisted to-day of meat with potatoes, and was good in quality and sufficient in quantity. All the vegeta¬ bles used in the house, are the produce of the garden attached to the Institu¬ tion. “Altogether the Asylum was in good order, and appeared to us to be under careful and active management.” J. TV. MYLNE, T. TURNER, The accounts for the year have been made up and balanced, and an abstract prepared according to the rules and regidations. The receipts are as follows :— On general account On building account Total, £6328 10 11 £4930 13 7 1397 17 4 i Commissioners in Lunacy. The expenditure has been— £4741 10 4 1952 10 7 £6694 0 11 On general account On building account Although the balance in the Treasurers’ hands is but £59 5s. 9d., still it should be remarked, that the sum of £355 4-?. 7d. is owing from the building accoimt for sums advanced by the maintenance account.