Reports on the asylums for European and native insane patients at Bhowanipore and Dullunda for 1856 and 1857.

Date:
1858
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Credit: Reports on the asylums for European and native insane patients at Bhowanipore and Dullunda for 1856 and 1857. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ( TO ) 1 VIII. Suggestions for Improvements. f i In addition to the improvenaents alluded to in the preceding par* graphs, there are others well meriting consideration. Extension of the Grounds.—A glance at the ground-plan, Plate' will show that their extent may be estimated at about one-half of tl total area or between lour and five acres. Of the latter one third, adjoif ing the southern front of the Asylum, must be kept free from vegetation in order not to obstruct ventilation. The ai-ea is farther entrenched upo^ by a large tank which reduces the land available for agricultural pu poses. When the whole is brought under cultivation, it will produce r; crop of raw material, suflficient to render the Asylum during a seasa independent of the market. The gradual increase of Patients will ever tually call for additional wards; substantial work-sheds and store-roon are greatly wanted ; all these improvements require extension of groun As observed in a correspondence with the Magistrate of the 24i-Pergm nahs (No. 187, dated the 9th October 1856,) the different courts i consequence of not being paved, present an appearance little harmonii mg with the general tidiness of the Asylum. A pavement and brick-built bathing-house close to the tank, would greatly add to tl comfort of the Patients. No dead-house nor' sufficiently removed dissecting room has , ever bee attached to the Asylum. Post mortem examinations can therefore nu be performed in private. The Asylum Hospital is unsuitable to tl purpose without running the risk of causing excitement and of hurtiri the national prejudices of the Patients. John Gray, “ Calcutta Gazette’* Offios.