Sixteenth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the 1st of January to the end of the year 1863.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Sixteenth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the 1st of January to the end of the year 1863. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At our request we have been furnished by Dr. Boyd, with a statement of the recent alterations and improvements in the asylum of which the following is a summary:—- 1. —-The planting with flowers and shrubs of the airing courts on the female side, and a part of those on the male side, and the alterations and repairs of the walks. 2. —-A new cricket ground in course of formation and nearly completed. 3. —-The consolidation, (for which the necessary commencement has been made by removing the coping from the division wall), of the two front male airing courts, as now on the female side. 4. —The construction of some additional water closets, and the introduction of seven of Jennings’s patent water closets. 5. —The repair of the baths generally. 6. —-The introduction into female ward, No. 1, of some good work tables and suitable seats. 7. —The painting and graining of the doors in female ward, No. 3. 8. —Valances of a bright crimson colour placed over the windows of the corridors and day-rooms generally on the female side, and similar valances in progress of introduction in the male wards. 9. —'The decoration with coloured prints, &c., of the walls and corridors throughout the asylum. 10. —Aviaries in course of construction. 11. —The window-frames in about two-thirds of the single-rooms made to open outwards from below, for about six inches. 12. —The construction of a ventilating flue in connection with the chimney of the steam furnace, and the better abstraction thereby of the foul air from No. 1 female corridor. 13. —The insertion of glazed panels into several of the doors leading to the airing courts, and into that of the needle-room, in which an additional window has been made. 14. —The new flooring of the single-rooms in wards No. 3 and one dormitory. The patients have, during the past summer, had the enjoyment of four dramatic performances, by officers of the asylum, and two excursions, in parties of about 50, to Cheddar Cliffs. Since the last visit about three acres of land, called the “ Quarry Fields,” adjoining the asylum, and containing good springs, have been purchased for £300.