Twenty-first annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Twenty-first annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    building which would be required. As regards their introduction to such ground floor wards, I am of opinion, considering on the one hand the prepara¬ tion that would be required in converting the Closets to the purpose, together with the cost of apparatuses and appliances, and on the other hand the adjacent ready supply of water, and the use of soil pipes and drains from the second floor Closets, that the cost to introduce the Earth system would be in excess of the Water Closet system, inasmuch as I find upon calculation that the cost of the former would be for the ground floor £104, and the latter £90. Permanent attention and cost would also be entailed in the preparation of earth, and in its supply to, and removal from, the Closets. The cost of the building construction would be the same in either instance. I beg to remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, HENRY ROWE, County Surveyor. Worcester, 1st Dec., 1873.