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56. The classes for drill and organised games and for singing instituted during
1928, have proved to be of such benefit to the patients, both physically and mentally,
that the arrangements have been extended to provide for four sessions of two hours
in each week, instead of two sessions of two hours in each week.
57. In the Annual Report for 1928 (Vol. II., p. 42) reference was made to
a scheme for the enlargement of The Manor by the erection of three detached villas
for sixty patients each, two for male patients of the trainable and tractable type,
and one for female adult or adolescent of intractable temper and criminal antecedents.
Plans for the erection of these villas were approved by the Minister of Health, and a
tender for the work, amounting to £29,253 was accepted. In addition expenditure
of £8,855 for necessary engineering work was authorised. The erection of these
villas will be completed during 1930.
58. The enlargement of the institution has necessitated the provision of new
refrigerating plant and a cold storage chamber, and these were installed at a cost
of £390.
59. The herd of cows on the institution farm was increased and a new cowshed
was provided at a cost of £800.
60. Mr. W. A. Frankcombe, formerly clerk and house steward at the Ewell
Colony, was transferred to be house steward at The Manor, in the place of Mr. G. L.
Brown, transferred to be house steward of Hanwell mental hospital.
61. Daring the year ended 31st March, 1930, the sales of articles made in
the workshops realised £3,817, as compared with £2,932 during 1928. In addition,
articles, valued (at cost) at £2,974, were made for use in the institution itself. The
industrial capacity of The Manor will probably be increased during 1930, when
there will be a larger market in the Council's service consequent upon the transfer
thereto of poor law institutions.
Farmfield.
62. This institution continues to provide accommodation for a difficult type of
adult male defective who cannot be housed in a mixed institution without detriment
to the discipline and welfare of other inmates.
63. The work of enlarging the institution to accommodate 48 additional
patients, making 133 in all, to which reference was made in the Annual Report for
1928 (Vol. II., p. 41), was completed during 1929. By the end of the year the
institution was full.
64. During the year 53 patients were granted licences, and only in 11 cases
was it necessary to revoke the licences and bring the patients back to the institution.
65. Arrangements were made for patients of the Roman Catholic faith to
attend services at a Roman Catholic Church in Horley.
66. Arrangements were made for an eye specialist employed in the Council's
public health department to visit the institution twice yearly to examine, when
necessary, the eyes of patients, and to prescribe any treatment called for.
67. As an experiment for six months authority was given for a temporary
male clerical assistant to be employed at the institution.
68. During the year the Horley and District Electricity Supply Company,
Limited, submitted proposals that the Council should grant the company a wayleave
for a main overhead transmission line to cross the Farmfield estate and that the
company should supply to Farmfield electrical energy for lighting and power hitherto
generated on the Farmfield estate. The necessary wayleave was granted, and the
company's offer to supply current to Farmfield was accepted.
69. Authority was given for the provision at a cost of £430 of tanks and filter
beds for the treatment of sewage from the staff cottages erected in 1927, and forthe
provision of a new carpenter's shop at a cost of £300.
70. During the year payments for articles made or repaired in the bootmaker's
carpenter's and tailor's shops amounted to £90.
Visiting
teachers.
Additional
accommodation
for
patients.
New works.
Farm.
House
steward.
Industries.
Enlargement
of institution.
Grants of
licence.
Religious
services.
Eye
specialist.
Clerical work.
Electricity
supply.
Special
works.
Industries.