Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, December 31, 1863 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the County Lunatic Asylum at Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session, December 31, 1863 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the treasurer of the said asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Chaplain has likewise for some time past devoted two evenings in the week to reading short, amusing, and instructive tales to about 150 of the Female patients, and this appears to have given general satisfaction. Two Dining Halls, each capable of seating 400 patients, have been constructed in the old part of the Asylum. They are conveniently placed near the kitchen, and are very central to those wards to which they belong. Here 800 of the patients (400 of each sex) will take all their meals. These halls, which are spacious and lofty, have been formed on the Women’s side out of the old laundry, and on the Men’s side in a corresponding building which was originally erected for workshops. The new detached laundry, which has been fitted up with Washing Machines and Hydro-Extractors, worked by steam power, answers very well, and relieves a great many of the inmates from their former disagreeable and injurious occupation. The Church is now in course of enlargement, and will, when completed, give sittings for between 700 and 800 people. A large piece of land, contiguous to the Women’s new ward, is being enclosed and laid out as a pleasure ground. A quadrangle of upwards of an acre in extent, and syjrounded