Fifty-seventh annual report of the County & City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum, Powick, for the year 1909, and financial statements, 1909-10.

  • County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum (Powick)
Date:
1910
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Credit: Fifty-seventh annual report of the County & City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum, Powick, for the year 1909, and financial statements, 1909-10. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5.—The following is a table of attendances of the several Members of the Committee of Visitors at the monthly and special Meetings held during the year, of which there were 12 monthly and 2 special, and at the House Committee Meetings, of which there were 6. Monthly and House Special Committee Meetings. Meetings. John Brinton, Esq. 13 Rev. H. W. Coventry. 13 R. V. Berkeley, Esq. 7 Rear-Admiral Britten (now deceased) 8 Harry E. Dixey, Esq., M.D. 8 G. W. Grosvenor, Esq. 7 Major W. C. Hill . — C. Pelham Lane, Esq. 13 Rev. W. H. R. Longhurst . 4 G. E. Wilson, Esq. 8 Rev. J. B. Wilson . 12 John Stallard, Esq. 12 Ernest Day, Esq. 10 J. Millington, Esq. 9 C. J. Whitehead, Esq. —* 5 3 2 2 2 3 4 3 5 The Engineering and Agricultural Sub-Committees have also met from time to time. 6. —We granted a Pension of £58 14s. 6d. per annum to Allen Wagstaff, Assistant Storekeeper and Brewer Attendant, who had been in the service of the Asylum for 43 years. This grant has been approved by your respective Councils. 7. —The new system of Gas Lighting has now been com¬ pleted at a total cost of £1,783 19s. Id., and is working satis¬ factorily 8. —We have entered into a Contract with Hereford Asylum for reception of Male Patients at a charge of 14s. per head per week. Ten Patients have been received under this Contract up to the 31st December, 1909. 9. —Important alterations to the Dairy are in progress, but the cost of these will not, we think, exceed £200.