Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-ph5wq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-28T17:12:38.124Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Design for a Public Asylum for 310 Patients, allowing for extension of Accommodation up to 450 Beds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

C. S. W. Cobbold*
Affiliation:
Earlswood Asylum. (With Plates)

Extract

The accompanying designs have been prepared by Messrs. Berry and Burmester, architects, London, in consultation with myself. We do not claim that it is in all respects a model asylum, great economy both in construction and in subsequent administration having been carefully studied throughout. It is believed, however, that it provides at a reasonable cost all the requirements of a modern asylum for the pauper class, that its arrangements comprise everything which is essential to the most approved methods of treatment of insanity, and that it presents novel points and advantageous combinations which render it specially worthy of attention. The design is suited to the requirements of either a small county or a borough, for it contains, in due proportions, accommodation for all the classes of the insane found in our public asylums.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1886

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.