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56. The contract with Messrs. T. Bradford and Co., Ltd., for the installation of
a laundry plant (see Annual Report for 1922, vol. II., p. 18) has been varied to provide
that the contractors will be paid 80 per cent. of the value of all permanent work
properly executed and fixed on the site until the amount retained by the Council
is equal to 10 per cent. of the amount of the contract price, after which the full
value of the further work will be paid to the contractors.
57. Expenditure for the undermentioned additional works at the hospital
has been authorised: additional residences for medical staff, £3,520; repair and
enlargement of West farm buildings, £13,000; provision of iron fence to enclose
farmland, £1,200; provision of greenhouses, potting sheds, and garden staff buildings,
£1,500.
Lease to
Ministry of
Pensions.
The Ewell Colony.
58. The lease of the Ewell Colony to the Ministry of Pensions for use as a
hospital for service pensioners suffering from neurasthenia expired on 31st July,
1923, but was renewed for a term of two years on the same conditions as before,
but subject to the additional provision that the Ministry will pay in addition to
the rent of £11,000 a year, ten per cent. of the total salaries and wages of the Council's
established staff employed at the Colony as a contribution towards the Council's
contingent liability to pay superannuation allowances. The Ministry undertook
to take all necessary steps to secure an extension beyond 31st December, 1923,
of those provisions of the Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1916,
as extended by the Expiring Laws Act, 1922, which safeguard the pension rights of
the Council's established asylum officers and servants employed at the Colony during
its occupation by the Ministry. These were, in fact, extended by the Expiring Laws
Act, 1923, until 31st December, 1924.
Medical
superintendent.
59. On the promotion of Major Norcliffe Roberts to be medical superintendent
of the West Park mental hospital, Dr. L. H. Wootton, a deputy medical superintendent
serving at Colney Hatch mental hospital, was seconded to act as medical
superintendent of the Ewell Colony.
Sale of land.
60. The Council has conveyed to the Urban District Council tor £1330
a plot of land, of rather more than 3 acres, forming part of the Ewell Colony estate,
to be used for an extension of a sewage farm, subject to conditions safeguarding
the amenities of the Council's property.
Readjustment of
estates.
Horton Estate.
61. About an acre of land hitherto part of The Manor estate has been transferred
to the estate of the West Park mental hospital in exchange for about 3½ acres
of land which would otherwise form part of that estate.
Numbers.
Staff.
62. The staff of the mental hospitals department, including the staff at the
central offices on 31st March, 1924, numbered 608 officers, 3,313 nurses (male and
female), and 1,250 employees of miscellaneous grades.
Mental
hospitals
engineer.
63. The Council decided to retain the services of Mr. W. C. Clifford Smith,
O.B.E. (who has passed the usual retiring age of 65), as mental hospitals engineer
until 31st October, 1924.
Director of
the Pathological
Laboratory.
Maudsley
hospital.
64. The Council on 24th April, 1923, appointed Mr. Frederick Lucien Golla,
M.B.,B.Ch. (Oxon.), F.R.C.P.(London), to be the pathologist of the London County
mental hospitals and director of the pathological laboratory at the Maudsley
hospital, in succession to Sir Frederick Mott, K.B.E.
Medical
superinten-
dent of
Horton
mental
hospital.
65. Permission has been given for Lt.-Col. J.R. Lord, C.B.E., medical superintendent
of Horton mental hospital, to accept honorary appointment as joint
secretary to the National Council for Mental Hygiene.