The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

LUMAI7O MITLOId &grown

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Mr. J. ?LOVES, W. P. , brought up them reports. The
quarterly report showed :—Ralanse in the treasurer's
hands let quarter, £ll IS.. 101.; wale./ rage, £3 13..—
tout. 183 Fle. 10d. Amount doe from union., at la
per day, Mgt 18s. lid.; ditto from net.eoen,7 end eon.
peeper, COS 14s.—total, £2.177 4t. 9d. Querterly en•
pienditurs. 1.1.131 11s. Id; leaving a balance in band of
WO ii.. Fd. The maintenance rate ordered at Is. per day.
£43 3., 41, in various amounta was ordered to be paid.
The following outmoste were taken :—John Drake.
%wad. et 6td.; Barrett, cheer% per cwt. £2; Irldridge
and Mum, ale, per gallon, fld.; Bogor, for grogeries ;
Clandoen Coil Company, anureened coals, per ton,
1,4 helf year, lila.. 2.4 half Tear, Is. 6d.; Mr. S. Xylem.
straw, per inn, re; Mr. 8. Chilcott, naM per seek. 14a;
barley seed, ditto, 19.. MT. Eloper then proceeded to
rasa annual report : —The committee reported the
mylonis to be conducted Ins eery satiefactory manner,
and that on the repeated representations of the o.ln-
Inimponen in Luau, • monad medical sosistant, Dr.
Puree, was :appointed to the titernsinster Asylum,
at. salary of £BO per annum, and entered on his duties
at the end of last Marsh. In consequence of the in-
stream in the Cluiplein's duties • hones had bun provided
for him at Charetinster. it • rent of £3O per annum
The Bev. J. B. Dyson was appointed Chaplain ii.
May, end entered on hie duties at Midsummer. The
attendant. generally bad conducted themselves ash.
lactority sod perforated their duties with diligence.
The wells of the chief anima being in • bad state •
.eontract for cuing them with oemeot wee entered into
with Ur. Gregory for the sum of £BB7 la. 6d. The
work was finished in October, and had proved a reined,
for the ills compleined expense wee defrayed
from the out.ceounty patients' urples fund. A new set of
roles for the go.ern mut of the two asylums reeeiverf the
sanction of the Secretary of State on 12th Jose.
Agreements have been entered into with Oxford and
Berko Asylums for the reception of 8 'additions] -nal,
patient. at 12s. 6.1. per week, and with the Visitihe
justices of the asylum at Abergavenny for the reception
of 30 additional female patients at 11.. 6d, /4,...,4.
A coosider.ble Increase bas again taken place in the
numl-ey of county patients Omagh not so large as in the
preceding year. The number iu the two asylums at the
else of 1865 was 141 males, 152 females,
_total 293
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• 'milted sines 29 males, 90 females, total ; making
an aggregate of 170 melee end 182 females. and • grand
toes! of 352. D.uhergred emu 11 males, 15 females, died
sine 11 moles. 13 foomlee. Collet, patients in ti,,.
asylum Dee 31,1806.148 males. 1551•Indes, total 303;
Cut wan y pauper p•tients, at time Worm of 1865. 75
limbo. 30 fe-makes, 4.lnaittad idiom, 12 male., 32 female',
&wham. it mom, 6 male., 3 fem.'s.; died coos, 1 aisle;
leaving 80 males, and 59 females get want? Peeper
patients, in the asylums at the Woes of 1888-1101 P
!sworn.' Glow of 1865. 8 males, 6 females; edmitte
Wrote. 3 melee, 4 females; di-cbarged sinter. 1 wale, 1
female; died, 1 male, making 9 males and 9 females
.8.-peepere at the clues of 1866; sod • greod total of
237 males end '..16 females in the two asylums on Des.
31, 1866, The health .1 the prieours had been good.
The west of maintenance bed been Is. per day. The
practice of purchasing. stook and dump, and alatighter'
lug them on limpet:o tic had been adhered to, and the
meat hied always been found of good qua lay; II was
believed that to this arraopment the ournpar.tively
low rate of maintenance WM in some measure
attributable. Two of the Comeolmiours in Lunacy
visited the serlares on the 14th sod 15th February.
They spoke of the wards being in eitallent anditioo,
of the clothing being clean and good, of the food se
itioellent in quality and well-cooked, awl t tb . pat,onle
a. being, with the ex,eption of two to seolusiou fano
maniacal excitement, in • very quiet sod comtoruble
eondition. They also remarked on the duasomfort
erismg loom the tie penetrating through the walls,
which it was believed, hid now been effectually
remedied, and on the want of millepede° and means of
amuse-meat for the patient. at Furman and tbe lee.
oomforteble appearance of the wards awn see. the
removal of UMW articles of fumigant and oniament to
the mew asylum. They made a few other an gesmoos
In re‘ard to intersal arrange meat' and furnishing.
These matters were receiving atiention, and in several
in.tanass the reenimmendations had been carried out.
Of the loan of £41.000 bo. rowed frm the tiun Laurence
GIL" on *Purify of the ova .ty rates, £l,lOO bee beim
paid off. Me. Floyer observed that the notintenaece rote
was the lowed of any ocianty Wham in 18111018111.1r81file
uniformly threeilloet the year Th. spar week, whi the
lowest in any 'dater aunty by last pada returns, whim
proeisions were rather oboapyr, • as 7e, 714. The
deaths were 5 per seat, en the avenge bomber of
patients, and he Waived dm meueral tali at wham
pee 7 pee mat Ames. *sib lbeleireed doing the

Tess Were 9 males sod 12 (masks, iota 31, moorered ;
7 males sad 6 females were retied; sad one Wes der
charged unrelieved, bis friends betas prepered to take
Mirage of him.
The repots eras edopted, and the visitors wove
appointed.