Twenty-fifth annual reports for 1883 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
Date:
1884
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Credit: Twenty-fifth annual reports for 1883 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    They consist of— 1. —Seven new blocks for Water-closets, built out behind the main building, with which they are con¬ nected by a passage admitting of a cross draft of air. 2. —The disconnection of all waste pipes leading from the Baths, Lavatories, and Sculleries to the main drainage. 3. —Improvements in the Sculleries and in the main drainage system. These improvements are estimated to cost a sum of upwards of ^2,500, which the Committee propose to defray out of a balance in hand, under 25 and 26 Viet., c. 11, sect. vi.; and they are happy to report that they need not apply to the Court for a grant to meet the expenditure. The Committee beg further to report that Mrs. Stroud, who had been Housekeeper in the Asylum for 25 years, has been compelled to resign from failing health, and from the effects of an injury received in the performance of her duty. Her case was fully considered by the Committee, who resolved unanimously—in con¬ sideration of her long and faithful service, extending over nearly a quarter of a century—to recommend to the Court to allow her a pension of £100 a year, being two-thirds of her salary and allowance, and in accor¬ dance with the limit prescribed by 25 and 26 Viet., c. hi, sect. xii. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Woodhouse, who had for some time past efficiently filled the office of Assistant Female Officer in the Asylum, has been appointed Housekeeper in the place of Mrs. Stroud.