The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-01-31 00:00:00

SOUTHAMPTON LUNATICS AT THE DORSET
COUNTY ASYLUM.

At the lasi meeting of the Soathampton Board of
Guardians the report of the Committee of Guardians
who visited the Dorset County Asylum was presented.
—The Clerk read the following letter from Dr.
Chessman.

Marland House, Janutry 23rd, 1871.
Gentlemen,—l have to report that 1 accompanied the
Visiting Conuaittee to the Dorchester County Lunatic Asylum,
on the 17th Instant, for the purpose of inspecting our lunatic
paupers theta lam sorry to my them is no prospect of any
of them recovering a sound gate of mind, all of them being
chronic and incurable masa They seem, however, to be healthy
and comfortably located in their new abode, the site of which
Ii similar to that el the Hants County Asylum, the archi-
tecture being very different. One of the patients, named
Junes Klnchlogtoc, who was reported doaf and dumb, hoe
boa beard to speak-
-1 am genUemaa, your obedient servant,
J. Cassavas.
_ . _

The Deputy-President said notwithstanding the un-
favourable state of the weather, he, in company with
five other guardians, visited the Asylum, on the 17th
instant. and he thought he might say a few words about
toe building, which might interest them. The asylum
was built to hold 300 patients, and had about 60 acres
of land attached. There was • fans close to it where
they reared all their own cattle. The paupers appeared
to be usefully employed, and in their out-door avoca-
tions must have been of great service to the authorities,
espuially in the face of the fact that there was only
one paid gardener employed to keep the piece in order
They made their own gas, and the water wee exceed-
ingly good, there being a ran of some 503 feet depth of
sheik in the locality. The chapel was a large and open
plus, and underneath it was a room for the use of the
inmates for singing and danoing, but theatrical' were
forbidden. The patients teemed healthy. and those
spoken to were satisfied with the food given them and
the care taken of them. The house was filled with
pietures of every deseripaon, and everything appeared
to be done for the benefit of the people who were
there. These oonsisted entirely of paupers, with
a few exceptional suss whioh were taken at a
is,. 'barge then that made for the paupers them-
selves, in order to form an encouragement to
small tradesmen and others not possessed of great
means to send any relations who might be insane there
—that they might reap the full adventages of such an
institution wiSeeetleonaing under the appellation of
paupers. For these the *huge was as low as 10s. He
thought their clerk might be instructed to ascertain
from the asylum whether, if we had any respectable
people here who might wish to place friends in the
institution, they might not be taken at charges proper.
tionately low.—Kr. Batchelor the 10.. charge only
applies nto the @aunty of Dorset- —The Deputy.
President said the clerk might, by writing, get them to
extend the privilege to this town. Dr. Symes bad re-
oommended that ix future the number of visiting
guardians sheen not he BO many, as it tended to Grate
the patients ; indeed, one woman said they were a gang
of murderers, and they were obliged to take her away
and put her in soother apartment They sew all the
patients but two, who were in what was Galled the
old asylum, Metaled two miles off. The doctor
expected to native the other patients in Jane next,
and then the saving between what they now paid at
Dorchester and what they had been paying at Sells-
bury would amount to about £650 • year. With this
saving they woald be able, he hoped, to dispense
with the building of • sew innate asylum for the
town. which he felt wee very undesirable, either by
themeelve• or is; eciajrusetion with Portsmouth. If,
however. Southampton were obliged to build such an
institution, he thought it mould be dans on their own
seminal entirely. The authorities at the asylum seemed
very well plumed with the Southampton paupers, but
said those from Portsmouth were the most foal-mouthed
let they had ever had.
WINBORNE.
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PITTS samosa, Friday, —Mors the Hev.C. .1. Glyn.
and Sir Edward Oreedied, KALB.
John Poem, e Dosshouse k.ep of Lytchet Minster, was
stunmened Si the imbues of the Deputy Chief Conueble for
keeping his house open sitarists o'clock OA the night of the
11th net, Mr. Atkdosem appeared for the &knee, and the
defendant wu fined 110 e and hi coda; and this being his ascend
I offence, the conviction, wee endonied on 11611c:once.
: taro Cobb • young fellow of Wimbome, was summoned by
the Deputy Chief Constable for having been drunk and indecent
In Wiroborne square, on the 11th Mit P.C. Adams proved
the ellen a, and the defendant wee fined 101 and Is costs, and
committed for 14 days in &hunt of payment.
Hairy Hawes, of fiturolosnef Marshall, was fined te end S.
mete tot being drunk and disturbing • Temperance meeting
held la the echoolroom In that village on the 19th inst. The
offence was proved by P. Hart.
Mr. Whee. filandfisid, a farmer, of Verwood, was sum-
moned by the Deputy Chief Constable as inspector of Weight.
and Msasurek tor baring had six unjust weights in his dairy
oh the lltk rid, two She., one 7 drains, and the other
14 drams deficient, one lilt itj drams defident, two Pm. fij
and 2 drama deficient,
_and one jib. Le dram. deficient.—The
Bench convicted Mr. atandield in the penalty of £1 and ID Od
coda.

Thomas Cole, of Poole, Ames White, of the mine plass, aid
Albert Weebe, of Waterloo, Castford Magna, the two former
17 years of ags, and the Maar le roan old, were charged with
giijg are tame rabbits, at Waterloo, on the 17th last., two
belooghig to William Mosley, one to Jame. Palmer, one to
,) and the other to Samuel Chadey ; they were
a/I valued at Ls ad each.—lnformation of these rubberise was
Om to P.C. House, of Lytobett Minstar on the Inth Instant,
sad on timidity lag the constable, with the moisture° of P.C.
Reeks, of the Poole police, apprehended the prismium The
evidence Weedy implicated the whole of the dedendants, Cole
doubtlesely being the ringieader.—Mr. Moore defended—The
Bench convicted the whole of the prisoners. and sentenced
Cots to oae montles bard labour; the others IMO bound
over to ONO up tor Jeciperet wise ogled upon.