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finding room for all the cases presented for admission.
To meet this requirement the Managers decided, with
the consent of the Local Government Board, to increase
the accommodation by the addition of two pavilions,
the erection of a Nurses' Home, and the provision of
additional day-room accommodation. The estimated
cost of this additional accommodation was £28,000,
which amount the Managers borrowed under the
authority of the Local Government Board, to be repaid
by equal annual instalments of principal and interest
combined. The money was borrowed from the Provident
Clerks Mutual Life Assurance Association. The
total amount of the Loans now borrowed amounts to
£91,863
Contemplated
Additions.
During the past year the Managers have had it in
contemplation to erect a new Porter's Lodge at the
Asylum entrance, and to adapt the present Porter's
Lodge into receiving wards. Also to provide sundry
additional accommodation in the Administrative Block.
Plans for the execution of these works have been prepared
by Messrs. J. & S. F. Clarkson, of Poplar, and
have been approved by the Local Government Board.
At the time of writing this report the plans are in the
hands of the Local Government Board for the purpose
of having the Board's seal attached; immediately on the
return of these plans the Managers will proceed to take
the necessary steps for carrying out the works.
New Managers
for the three
years ending
Lady-Day, 1899.
At Lady-Day, 1896, the present Board of Management
came into office, having been elected for
three years under the Poor Law Board's order
of the 23rd April, 1868. The first meeting of the
new Board was held on the 31st March, 1896, when
the Managers elected as Chairman for their term
of office Dr. Thomas Power, and as Vice-chairman