I. Account of the construction of the asylum, and the early proceedings connected therewith : II. Second annual report / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards' Heath.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
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[1861]
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Credit: I. Account of the construction of the asylum, and the early proceedings connected therewith : II. Second annual report / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards' Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been entered into with Messrs. Ayers and Ismay for £3,423, was then submitted to, and approved by, the Court. That Dr. Charles Lockhart Robertson, of Charles Street, Berkeley Square, had been appointed the resident Medical Superintendent, and the Rev. Henry Hawkins, had been appointed the Chaplain. That the necessity of having a plentiful supply of water, prevented the opening of the Asylum so soon as otherwise it might have been. An Artesian well, which had been sunk to the depth of 217 feet, required longer time to complete, owing to the extreme hardness of the strata, than had been anticipated. The Well had been finished, and the result wTas a most abundant supply of good water. That the Asylum had been fitted and furnished, and clothing obtained for 400 Patients. The Asylum, however, is capable of containing 450. That on the 25th July, 1859, the Asylum was opened for reception of Patients, and the whole of the Lunatic Paupers who had been confined in other Asylums, were soon after received into the Asylum, with the exception of two old and feeble Patients, whose removal might have been attended with danger to them. That since the opening of the Asylum it had been visited by the Commissioners in Lunacy, and they had expressed their satisfaction as well with the Building as also with the care bestowed upon the Patients, and with the arrangements generall}r.