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The Managers also propose to appoint a porter with
special reference to the tradesmen's entrance, thus doing
away with assistance from the patients at that entrance.
The Managers have, where practicable, employed
direct labour in connection with repairs, and the annual
cleaning, whitewashing and painting of the Asylum, and
the carpenter's work, instead of employing a tradesmen
for this work as had been the custom hitherto. In
connection with this departure, the Engineer's title has
been altered to Engineer and Superintendent of Labour.
Direct Labour.
The Managers at the commencement of their term
of office, resolved to invite the Press to be present at
their meetings, and reports of their proceedings now
appear regularly in the columns of the Local Press.
Admission of
Press.
The ladies of the Flower Mission connected with
the Deaconess House, Mildmay Park, continue their
visits to the Wards of the Asylum periodically, and their
kindly work is much appreciated by the patients.
Ladies Flower
Mission.
With a view of liberating the beds at the times of
pressure, the Managers have, with the concurrence of
the Boards of Guardians of the Unions comprising the
District agreed to send lock cases, where the treatment
is likely to be prolonged, to the special Lock Hospital.
Lock Cases.
During the year the Managers have been in communication
with the Commissioners of Inland Revenue
with regard to action taken by the Surveyor of Taxes
in assessing them under Schedule A, with respect to the
apartments occupied by officers, instead of, as had been
previously the case, the officers themselves. The Commissioners
had, in giving instructions that no charge
was to be made on the Managers under that schedule in
future so long as the circumstances remained the same,
reversed the decision of the Surveyor of Taxes from
Assessment of
Officers'
Quarters.
Schedule A.