The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-07-07 00:00:00

00VT LUX•TIC ASTLIJIL

Mr. PLOTS'S presented this report, from which it
appeared that the balance in ban f m last year ems
1357 19s. 9d.; and Om receipts, inaltelins this indent*,
amounted to £1072 Ins. Id. The expenditure wog
1'1.03219*. ; leaving a balance le band of £403.. Id.
Coat of maintenance per day. 106 At the elms of laid
quarter the number of inmates were wiles. 97: females.
96; total 192. Admitted sines, male. 7; females. 6;
total 13; irrand total, 206. Deaths, B; diseharsad, 6.
Th. total number of pst;ents at Forman was 196 Al
Fishertnn 69: inebiding 25 males and 44 females. On
the hooks. 263 The works at the Mgr Asthma were in
a very forward condition, and little more rentaiited to be
dose.

Mr. Pixies*, in alluding to this sulijcet, said the
new Asylum would require 02000 more le-fors it would
be completed, but thl. he hoped woeld he met by the
sale of Fontes Lenatic Asylum, if it .hoold pleats. the
Court to do on. This, however. could not he done at
the present time, and the question was how the money
wee to he raised for the completion of the asylum. sutv
posing the estimate given was a correct one. The way
in which the anis was proposed to he raised was to
apply the 11.000. sow apprirernhing with interest to
£1,200. which was the macificest gift of Sir Richard
01,11, sod lb. stoek which I. Invested in the same of
the trustee., known se the Contingent Pus& Them
tw0.... would wimple the estimate required for the
completion of the asylum. If the court should decide
to sell the property, and it should not fetch the ,
required, it witch, Ise coretw romit for the Court to boion
money to meet that deficiency.
After some conversation on the water ripply at the
asylum the report was received and adopted.
Mr. Fwritit then moved his motion, of which ha bad
gives notice. relative to the sale of Foram" Asylum.
He said hit Deed out en into matters which were permed.
...pa to say that when he originally came before this
Court to move for the purchase, of the land with • view
to the erection of • Dew rnylers, he considered the
queirtion of remaining at Paulo. was then dimmed of.
He made that mains with great reloctanoe, for ft wee
not once, or twice, or thrice, that he had opposed
motion, for moving Pontos, said it wee not until he
found it was impoasibla to remain there that he soggeshed
the removal of the asylum to another site. He
regretted each a step, beelia9o there were so matey
arnadatious oolioe/6M with the place, and the Insow..
lades that Pontos had alwayi stood amongst the
hint regulated and most perfectly conducted and nth".
factory adahlishment for lunatics" in the Ward one
However, having been decided by the Court, that it
should be mewed, it appeared to him that there wise so
choke, open but to dispose of it. The 40th meths
of the Act of Parliament stated that the visitora
might sell, and so far am he could jeot.ge, and
from what he gathered from the °pinkies' of the noble
chairman at the last Stearn:se he thought no other legal
wane could be adopted. He did sot tbilig the Court
bad any power to approprisirn it to say other purpose
them that of au ',views, and if so there was eite
opell, and that was to proms& with the annedon
of the Sanitary of Stets, to sell the property.
The visitors had power to Framed In this
mow e'oprio NW% upon the 0011111Mft Of the Bean.
tar, of Stat. but looking at the metoolatinns sommotod
with the place, and the desire the eamenittee to set
la Arid harmony with the roles of the Court, it was
demned expedient to bring the quseil es Wore them, sad
to art with their authority and apeperhatias. He thee
moved Vie following resolutioe At That as mon se the
Die=r lunatic uyhtmott Cho sminetev,inthitoolati,
, and the oaths*. ar • removed thereto, As
*biting Jnatioss of the sayhtra be authorised end ow
glowered by this Cola*, 10 A the previous encsent
of owe of Her Itejerny's pr Wiwi! Secretaries of Shat,
twist his bawl. to WI. •Ither be public audios tee
poste cratreee. and enhltil to say ceeditious, all and
the wwwhet-he'em, buildhiga. leads, and rev,
mien known as Pontos A• 911%,, the same having b..s
found siornitable. and not neired for the parposies of
an awash.
rnylum for this ash. s tirn mosey to he realised
from the sell thereof be applied 'is seerrylag into execs.
tiou the Powers and purposes of the " Ludt. Asylum.'
Art 1853."
The Rev. ff. P. OAWBRIDOI Said be appeared before
the Court as • bird of iflosies ; hut, whatever might be
the decision of the Coll!t, he should sever take spots
',hod, to appear again on behalf of tba Pardon
A arktm, bOOlll,O if it inia sold, be had nothing more to do
with it, slid if it was retained, he had DM the dithteet
doom but that the onsets would make the best urn of
ft. H. felt deeply, with many others in the emote, at
midis, taw kb. Brmou'i gift shoold nom away it, tics
His gift waa for the special fit
manner mooted. benefit
of Lb. wiper Insoles, of this meaty, and is Brig