The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-26 00:00:00

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BRIDGE AND BUILDINGS' COMMITTEE.

Mr. C. T. PARKE read this report, which furnished
the following statement of accounts:—

"Bridge, £B9 15s. ; gaol, £lB2 19m. 2d.; ball,
£lO 158. 11d. ; house, 2s. ; on account for sundry
works ordered, £216 is. 7d. ; total, £lOO. The coin
mittee recommended that this sum be placed at the di
posal of the Chairman of the Committee for the ens
quarter."
COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Mr. FLOYIR brought up this report, as followo
"The Quarterly Meeting of the Committee of Viiikra
of the County Lunatic Asylum was held at Forstou, on
Tuesday, October 12th, when there were present—Bev.
J. A. Templer, 11. N. Middleton, Esq., W. N. Alford,
Esq., J. Gundry, Esq., J. J. Farquharson, jun./Esq.,
J. E. Bridge, Esq., J. C. Manuel, FAq., Augustus
Foster, Esq., John Floyor, chairman. The Tougher* of
the past quarter were examined and found correct.
The mounts of the preeent quarter were esamined,
from which it appeared that the amount to be received
from parishes, if the rate was fixed at is. per week,
would, amount to £1,019 Sc. Sd. ; and that the amount
of the quarter's expenditure was Mil 164. 9.1., which
would leave • balatioe of £27 Os. &I, to be Paid to the
Contingent Fund. The balance on the Contingent Fund
Is its. 74, In the form account 2,40 4s. 7d., in the
Charity Fund £332 17s, lid. The following county hills
were ordered to be paid—Property tax and poor rates,
Al 04. ad. ; Dr, Finch, extra charge for patients,
£139 Os, 24. ; R.. B. Sheridan, Esq., half-year's rent,
£9 HA 104.1 Mr. (elfin, ironwork, Sm. 5.9 Is. 24. ;
Mr. liondey, timber, £ll 17.. 140Si:over, mason,
16e. Bd.; expanse of removing ;Atlanta, £l5 14a. 3,1.
The number of ;mll'llll4 in the Asylum at the close of the
last quarter were—

Males. Fem. Total.
70 813 11511
. 0 Id 94

Admlllid alno• ...

78 10i 189

Biala. Pam. Total.
~. 0 1 1
pwollargo4 9 a 11
Itmv,d to
Viblierlau 4 0 la
II 10 99

!bum'lnlnn In the Asylum 30 TV $3 130
Ninunnr at Floliortun ,„ VS 33 as

100 1113 Vll3
And one criminal patient,
Mr. Moyer then wont on to Mete, AM the nsgoolelloni
for the puroliems of land et Wraulileford having felled,
they tel rouelvoil iiu offer of land widell would be ell
eilvantegroue eito for a now whim, The Visiting
Jitelleel halt, there ore, turned their &Mention to the
loud method of tollorging the prowl Nylon', Odell
would itepuellete to limo Wool thy diverelim of the
Conte turnpike rued near the whim, Should they
mimed In obtehting Mile diverehm, the linumillteeilor.
pow All ativertioe for plane fur the 0111141111101 it et the
myloto, No CO All 1114111 it eepelde n containing
pelleote, the eililitiiiiteLl.., ,„,,„ir.41.011111 lied er o.
Illeerillen end id r. ppolisli-- loth of wit oh lent..
moo ilea writton to blue visitors' 'n16;10018 lieir rel.
T. In meet the eutivenionee li the wont% au en eel
t let &milli be done Ity the portione of land hillidillhl to,
I um. Mr. Moyer Mien mild, If the Von? were ;owed
radopt 01; Jetport, lie eloriiiil mibinlllllll_ 011100111111/ewo
otion 1,--" Thil re tionmilltpe ti V MOM of the
emptie Anyliiii; e empnytered to 'Noe ths; Ilieertlon
of edyerteinente 0 ilie pnidile papere —or °Movie, 44
Rosy he I 'ought It - or ohtilillig piens for Niftier
Inelit of IN (Witty I totillle Asylum. elm tied tlir .
yellow if tho 0111110 lil \I Ar Ili. atiolity clue
Viellore tiotoillt it wool te more ilpallible to open Is
iitror lii iiii 1 e otimpet I im lei oilier I et thy, Nig II
eo ml ileiiil IN pimp; pnoltieeil t tel W 1101 INF essw.
Ili mud the ;mod imitable fur then eel In new.
The Key. J. A. TellehllN Wed whether it Wolll4 NI
be rotrimble lo tiller a reward for the beet plan, N
before.
Mr ropoii en mid -might hq au the tilialririon Nth.
Viellore, &Ir. Moyer, whether lie liar nut a little law II
yollgition them upon. Ile pereillnied the COMA with
Como logemilly Nil a good ilsel of Argument thel the
(hootiiittee Monthi get eumisere opinion un serials
mellow
Mr, horn I Thal they elluuld have the power lode
11.
The lINAMMAII I We shell wee to that preeentl,
Mr,Minion I Berton you put yourmeivel 111 11/ OP
penes end trouble of getting these piece Mr. Nee
ielke ebutil—enil moiled you have had a groat meg
plane elreedy—duit'l you think you had bet
ur ter, Iret t 4
ell, ;oak. all yo arrangenteitta for the divervion of the
Ned and 461111 Min lainll Hitler do that than put your.
selves 16 any unnecessary ea penile, Before you eel eel
with advertisements, would It but be better for the wow
Wiles to make up their ;snide what ibis they really
went —whet they are going to do? Are you going to
build ineepelasive eofteges ae in Devonehlrel And
what is their plan 1 You must lay a buds of whit you
are gluing to do. Ima sure toy so:method Mead Will
allow ins to inform him whet the Clovernment does with
regard to Lunch, Asylums, They went to work In NM
way i—We (the oonimhn isciers hi Wilsey) met together,
and we laid down a bull 1 we said, we will have a build.
log of thet sort—in such a situatlon—of &attain plese
with certein requlsltem here, °there there—a sort of btook
Oen of what we should require. Well, we serried out
that arrangement 1 and I hop. it will be soon, when
everything is complete, that it was one upon an excel-
lent aystom. The Government purobasedllso MN of
lend, suitable for the agrioultural portion of the seta-
blisliment, at till an acre, close to the Wellington
College. Ido think you should certainly determine, be.
fore you vowed further, what you mean to do. There
he entirely a new course about to be takes with regard to
lunalle asylums. In Devonshire they find tint Gan
erect a supplementary building 11$ a very Komi east
indeed; bud I believe you might make by proper ar-
rangements Inexpensive buildhigs for • large number el
patients at the very low oust to the county of about 00
a patient. It seems to tue you are going wild about
your work, and the lowest stun these motions would
out you would bu £lOO or £l5O. I can &MAUI* that in
Devonahlre, the omit of providing the neoeesary aosioni-
niudation, with all suitable ounvenieuoes, are very Wes;
pensive indeed.
Tim Roy. J. A. TEMPLAII : I have seen those buildings
to which Mr. Donlon reform, but I do not think they
would be applicable.
Mr. tilimunx I I believe I am right In stating that
they did nob cost more than the sum I have
stated.
Thu Rev. J. A. Tinrclin t I will not my a word
about that.
Mr. 01.011111 I We have endeavoured to avoid any
UlllloooMilgry expense. The diversion of the road that I
have mentioned °Linnet he very large.
Mr. Dintutix I Dues not the ground rice?
Mr. FLoy lin i Not materially, exoept for about 1503
*phut ham been made MICA 41/11A In blue clerk of Chic e tr
or the (Jurou turnpike rued, with 1111 intimation at
4111110 lime that the Visitors wore not striotJy bound
Mutt idiot—mu lung is 1101110thint of the sort eau
done. With regard tu what Ur. Manton mentions
Whig down a binds, I think that is rather too
for mi. It Is 'ninny feir to 00111141 V visiting i
with wo well-qualifled 6 body aa thet to which lis
in the matter 4 laying fIUMII 4 buts, colic eitys, r
leg the Iniihlieg of lunatic whims, Our kilo
of ;Nowa, be miller reetrieled, Mn, Templer '
the ilevitiodilra &minium, lily (Atli kIIUWIMIVO d'
hoyiillil ihill l VIA Aril Moroni!" hound'., I
formation, ani we look Alm Nun gentlemen
built emylome iir their 'minima and Informal
illyeelf Inumnpetunt lo lay down 4 NAM for
helium, If we are phis ly willerge the el .
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thye wo pronto°, to llniert iblYerlietilliiilllll
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lhind yon mean to adopt the
port ilf 'flan will he nesemeary
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mit Allri Ili building Is to be
,sherto done nothing but spent
When Mile matter wee firel
' whether It woe not far elinfler to
I. Mimi to build an Imported eq.
_.J thing in an linperfiet manner,
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differentia to the minty would
At have to pay gl,llllO If they
imther enures. There has Mierefere
dil by not going forward In A hurried
, moat not feel that we have done very
delaying tide matWr. We have now
telling a hoe expensive plan Instead of
soensivi one, therefore the delay may
All not so had as might have bum anti-
rly If Mr Floyer will show that the
road will give us a ouitieleney of land for
Alnew plan,
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not merely a question of land for build.
ally to he settled Upon. Now n 0 propou to
a sosistance of Mr. ftheridan end Mr. Devon.
present "Ite additional buildings. With re.
,ii occupations of the patient*, that is another
, we propose to provide for that by land to be
Devenish, and it 1. 013011 to ua I and also foet-
id belonging to Mr. 13herldan, or by renting
s however are matter. taken together which
..ink have to be decided by the Conansittee.
, regard to the whole question, all I ask for now
lilt us to take such stops es may give na the
I laying on the table of this Court • eomplete
We have not the power ourselves to produce this
"thout incurring some expense ; we therefore only
be authorised to get these plans. We do not
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..t ; and in proceeding in this way I can ware you
no unnecessary expense shall be incurred. I do not
elf consider that the Court will be bound to the
i of the diversion of the road; they merely sanction
application to the trustee'. We must afterwards
, for the approbation of the Court. With regard to
.ached buildings—those cottages we have heard spoken
..f—l have had aonie conversation with Sir John
Beckworth, who says that detached buildings within
the precinct. of an asylum is a peat deviation from the
principles and practice of lunatic asylums ii; which they
are carried on. I would beg the Court to recollect that
this is not • question of • moderate supplementary addi-
tion to our present asylum ; that asylum can only con-
tain about 120 or 130 patients. We have it is true 160
there, but the rooms are very crowded, there ia no avail-
able place at all for removal of patient" in the event of
any aerioussioknesa breaking out, nothing like • lioapital
where we could put a patient in cue of infectious disease.
Isis), the asylum can only contain_ properly about 130
patiente, the nuuiber required is 291 To do that you
must have almost double as much room ; you cannot go
and erect a supplementary building; what yon want is
the whole building over again. There Is no ohuroh or
chapel; the asylum I repeat most be doubled; the palli-
ative in the way of detached buildings will not do at all.
You must in fact build a new asylum, malting of coons
the beet use of such portions as now eland. No other
arrangement eau meet the ease.
Mr. Cimino" : On this long vexed question I really
am very unwilling to occupy much of the time of the
Court ; but I understand Mr. ?layer to regret that he
Is not sufficiently well sequainted with the basis to lay
down all that an architect would require in order to ant
Now, let two of the Visitors be deputed to take a trip
and visit those lunatic asylums to which reference bps
often been made • examine all the plane in London of
the lately erected lunatic Asylums as they hay* been
constructed, and alter that they should proceed to tier.
tale counties to examine the building, for themselves.
There are sir or seven counties In which this new system
of inexpensive buildings I. either already tarried into
effect or about to be so. Now it strikes me that it two
members of the committee were to make that inspeetlon
—end I should prefer their doing it themselves instead
of sending any pmfessional penon—it they would do
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Court of Qnarter Sessions and say he cannot give an
opinion upon this 'natter, became he would then be
fully authorised and fully enabled to give the beat point.
bid information to the oounty, and they would noose-
euently be able to give us the beet plan. Ido really
think that would be the better course, and I should
advise that moat certainly to be done.
Mr. FLOYER : I have no doubt the member(' would
accept any duty that might be laid upon them ; but I
am afraid no tutorship of Nix or twolve months would
bring me up to the mark for building Ulu bout asylum.
We will do our beet and bring our opinion to the Court,
but for us to lay down A specific plan, that is rather too
much ; betides, this subject is, as I may say, sub jtulice.
It is really a very difficult thing to do that which Mr,
liordon ouggestt ; we will, however, you may ilrpoutl
upon it, make tote our best endeavour., .Tll,ll we
should not like past A TOAUllitil/11 to pay our expentut for
going about the country—it is a thing the magistrate*
would certainly not like. My own opinion is dill that
we 'Mould advortille fur plant as pruputed in tLo
report.
The Rev, J. A, TEMPLER : I think there is a Ilttlo
miNapprehension in the county with respect to the BMW
boy of patients aoooiniiiinlatc.l by um. Thom are 120 in
the aaylum and 20 at the top of the aupuriontendont'a
home, that make' LA) ; then there ere lit least ten or
twelve moro in the house, malting it over crowded, and
there are at least live applieationt now waiting to be
disposed of.
The Rev, C. J. a LYNN : Before you put before the
Court the adoption of Milt repurt, I bug to Nay that as
thu building is to be eructed altogether, lot I 1141
11110 W, I must atrungly Ante that we ought to look for
new mile altogether. Them Is Ulltt 014110 of which lan
ongnisant where A NUM of I:7 he, WM paid for All ilial.
V 1,11141 Who could Out get into the osybuic bodice there
WAN no room ; and I do really think every uniluavolir
thould be made to get a new whim, Nothing "minim to
he decided by the coiniiiitteu lit reality, and I do
lively think we Sr. further off then ever from a Nelda.
factory aettiement of tido long vustul unnotion.
The Cdtatittl.in thou put the niotion--That the re.
port of the Vialtort of the Lunatic Asylum be rueuivinl
and adopted. if the C.lurt 4(1016101e report, told the
Chairman, they do nothing nioru than this, thy ehinpiy
emilower the Visitor* to enter Into new negoalations for
room to enlarge time &ilium, without ;dodging the Court
to the adoption of any particular plan or moped that
it may be necetaary to enter into. Then they will re.
port progress Pilule in OWN great quattion at tliu mat
seNtlons, when he hoped it would be finally mottled.
(Laughter and olisera)
Ms motion was then eonfirtned, after which A formal
resolution authorlalng the advortlting for plane WWI
agreed to,