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SAINT GEORGE, HANOVER SQUARE PARISH VESTRY, Committee on the Expenditure of the County of Middlesex
[Report. 1836]
Third report of the Committee of Vestry, of the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, on the expenditure of the County of Middlesex. County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
London (Place), W. McDowall, printer,, [1836].
10, [2] p. ; 20.1 cm. (8º)

Drop-head title. The final leaf is blank. The asylum was built by William Alderson, 1829--31. See D. Russell, 'Hanwell Lunatic Asylum 1831--1844: the golden years', International History of Nursing Journal 4:1 (Autumn 1998), pp. 4--9; for a contemporary account, see Harriet Martineau, 'The Hanwell Lunatic Asylum', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, June 1834.

Copy Notes Enclosed in a printed covering letter from H.C. Selby from the Middlesex Sessions House, Clerkenwell, 12 July 1836 with copies of a report on the county rates and county treasurership (q.v.) and of the rules and bye-laws for the government of the watermen and lightermen of the river Thames (q.v.), addressed in ink Sir John Soane (Archives 7/H/2/12/1).

Binding Stitched without wrappers.

Reference Number 5862

Additional Names Hanwell Lunatic Asylum; County Pauper Lunatic Asylum


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