The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-10 00:00:00

INUDORI AND BUILDINGA

The committee reported that thu had nothing 'panda
to report. Ifolme bridge, in the Wareham dieision,
required a portion of one of the arches to be rebuilt, and
the foundation reelected. The expenditure daring the
xi:rte.:dhoti! tee.niF6oo, which the t cowritteLdrequeeted

°OUST! LUNATIC ASYLUM.

Mr. Floyer brought up the report, which set forth that
is,, amount due from unions at Is. per day was
£1.375 10s. 34., and from non-paupers and out-patient.,
£579 12.. —total Cl 951 2.. 3d. The balance due to
the trea.neer. £l9 9.. 51., sail as quarter's espen•
ditere, £1,899 10s. 9.l—total £1.919 Oa. Id., leaving •
balance in hand of £36 2s. 2.. The number of county
peeper patients in the two aavlums on the 25th March
was 145 node. and 154 females ; committed since, eisht
males sod sine females; diseharged, two males and Ass
females ' • and died, four male. and Ave fcmates, leaving
t 0.1 of 146 male. and 153 female.. Non-pauper
patients on 25th Nandi, 76 males and 30 female.; ad.
noted since, nine male.; and transfer from county
prmiters, one; discharged two ro•lee, leaving • total of I
out county patients, 84 males, 50 term's.; non-paupers,
seven males end n,-ven female, leakier the total I
number of patients in U.. two asylums. 237 males and I
190 females—total, 427. An agreement had been made
with the committee of the Abergavenne: asylum to
reedy. 30 female patient:a to the Dorchester asylum on
the same c irmitions as theme previnuel• admitted. 11r.
Moyer mid there were one or two satisfactory points to
the report to which he might advert. One was that the
maintenance rate which for some quartsrs past had been
13.1. • day, and one qoarter, he believed, 14d., had now
skein teen rearmed to what might be called rather the
nominal rum of • is. per day. He hoped the court
would consider that satisfactory. At the same time I.e
should say that the decrease in the rate might be at.
I audible, in some [llolllllre, h-1 the smaller consumption
of coals in warming the asylum, and melting gas in the
stormier quarter. Another satisfactory feature was thot
the nuinher of county reaper patients, i.e., patients
chargeable to anima Is the county, remained •mectly
the same as in the previous quarter, via, 299. There-
fore. when they proposed to build an •sylem to &coon. :
modate 300. they were not far off the mark. Hut 20
addition.' patients wets made room for by 'slowing
parts of the building not originally contemplated .0 to
be used ; they had also the old wtylum, which he hoped
would prove a reel admits,e to the satiety, to meet
any farther requirements. The number of non-pauper
patients webs seven males and pewit females, nine or ten
of whom were from this *aunty, and four from others.
Thera was still room for non-pauper patients. They
undertook to provide for 20, and were ready to receive
such as came under their regulations.
Mr. J. H. CALCILATT naked what the nimmer-bouses
were for which the large sum mentioned had b en
exrn.4llo. Mr. eta said that the item of £204 lilt. 81.
represented rather extensive buildings. The two courts
in front of the main building at Foratoo were neetwerily
exposed to the son, and in all building., for each ear-
poem as this, he believed what were called summer-
houses, were essential parts thereof. As the Court was
aware, it was most deeiratele that the patients shoal I
1w able to cot into the open air at all seamen of the
year, which them summer-homes would really nimble
them to do; and, happilj, there the air was eery
ealubrions, and might be got in great abenderms—
(leughter). When they were shoot to enter the new
asylum, one of the inmates said to the superintendent.
• Well, master, we we be going up to tbe new asylum.'
'Ye.," replied the supeeinteedent. "Well," he re-
joined. "thee. won't be mush trouble to get fresh sir,
we shall have nothing to do but pat down the window
and open our menthe, and we .hall get plenty of fresh
air up there." Anal the man was quite right on that
point. He believed, regarding the sumessr-boasse in
question, that to combine permanence with ebeapneee,
they wield not have adopted a better plea. He might
also mention that £4OO had been transferred from the
lon-pauper and oat-county patients' fund to the gement
fend, which would nearly cover the whole outlay, and
that the remaining £6O or so would be advanced by the
hank, and he trusted be paid off out of the same ample.
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