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, 1853 together with the superintendent's sixth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1853 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1852 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.

  • North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1853
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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, 1853 together with the superintendent's sixth annual report, read at the Easter sessions, 1853 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1852 / North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mechanical work executed by the Male Painters’ Work—(continued). 3 large flower stands, 2 coats 6 draught hoards, 2 coats 9 foot stools, grained mahogany Stonemasons’ and Bricklayers’ Work. 300 yards of sewer drainage, averaging 5 ft. deep, from west tank to clew in embankment Digging foundations and building new clew through embankment; working and fixing stone capping and flag covers for the same Working stone for weights for new mangle 20 yards of flag stone squaring and laying for extending paving to pump shed 215 yards of sewer drainage, averaging 4 ft. deep, from south tank to clew in embankment Taking down old cooking apparatus and boiler, and resetting new ones Lowering and refixing 2 drying closets and furnaces in laundry and washhouse Taking down 102 yards of stone walling 12 feet high in ailing courts Digging foundations for 8 iron pillars, building brick foundations, and fixing stone for the pillars of 4 covered seats in airing courts 106 feet of raised brickwork for floors of covered seats 80 yards of flag paving, working and setting the same for covered seats 18 stone quoins, working and setting for corners of privies in airing court, and making good stone work Attendants and Patients (continued). Cutting out 4 door ways, fixing and building up the same in stone-walls in airing courts 12 stone steps fixing, and flag paving for the same 15 yards tooling for stone paving 5 stone pig troughs making and fixing 12 yards of brick paving to privies in air¬ ing courts 16 yards of channel stone setting in airing courts White-washing the interior of the building twice in the year 10 acres of land have been drained, from 3 to 4 ft. deep, with pipe tiles 1200 yards of old hedges stubbed and ditches levelled 76 trees felled The airing court slopes in which the stone walls stood have been filled, by wheel¬ ing in about 250 loads of earth, and bowling grounds formed The embankment referred to in the Super¬ intendent’s report, is 456 yards long, and has a pleasant walk on the top 481 yards of gravel roads have been made, 11 ft. wide 758 yards of wooden palisading, 7 ft. high, have been erected, parallel with the embankment on the garden side 606 yards of quickwood hedges have been planted