CITY OF LONDONDERRY. 
Sub-section 3.— Establishments for Mental and Bodily Disease. 
With this class of establishments also the city is amply provided. The Lunatic Asylum can 
be only partially considered as appertaining to this parish, as its district embraces three counties. 
The Infirmary likewise is intended for the whole county, but the Dispensary is confined to the city 
and its liberties. • 
Lunatic Asylum. —The expense of erecting the Lunatic Asylum was advanced by govern¬ 
ment, and the three counties which constitute its district are bound to refund it by instalments. 
The expenses also of management are advanced from the same source, and repaid into the con¬ 
solidated fund, by applotments levied on the three counties at the assizes, in proportion to the 
number of patients furnished by each. 
The management is vested in a board of governors and directors, appointed by the Lord 
Lieutenant and Council, and selected from the nobility, clergy, and gentry of the district. The 
directors meet monthly, or oftener if necessary. 
The general dietary is as follows :—• 
Breakfast—7 ounces of oatmeal, with 4 quart of new milk. 
Dinner, Sunday—J lb. of beef, and 34 lbs. of potatoes. 
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday—1 pint of buttermilk, and 34-lb. of potatoes. 
Tuesday and Thursday, . . . Ox-head Soup and do. 
Supper— 5 ounces of oatmeal with 4 quart of new milk. 
No deviation from the above dietary is allowed, unless by an order from the physician. 
Of the patients about 100 are constantly employed—the males in tailoring, shoemaking, 
carpentry, garden and field labour, weaving and winding, pumping, washing potatoes, &c.— 
the females in plain work, quilting, knitting, spinning, washing in the laundry, cleansing the 
house, &c. 
The state of the establishment reflects great credit on the board, as well as on the manager and 
matron. It has repeatedly elicited the approbation of the inspectors-general of prisons, in whose 
Report for 1833 it is stated, that “ this provincial asylum maintains its rank amongst those already 
established in Ireland, for neatness, good order, and economy, and manifests the success that has 
invariably followed the humane and wise treatment pursued.” 
The officers, with their annual salaries, are as follow : — 
Surgeon 
. £100 
0 
0 
10 assistant nurses (each) 
£4 
4 
0 
Manager and matron* 
. 250 
0 
0 
1 cook .... 
6 
6 
0 
Clerk and store-keeper 
. 30 
0 
0 
1 laundress 
6 
6 
0 
Gardener 
15 
0 
0 
1 assistant laundress 
4 
4 
0 
5 keepers (each) 
12 
12 
0 
1 office store maid . 
4 
4 
0 
5 nurses (each) 
6 
6 
0 
1 hall porter . 
10 
0 
0 
YEARLY EXPENSE. 
Year 
ending 
Jan. 5. 
Total 
Expense 
Annually. 
Expense of 
a Patient 
annually. 
Number of Pa¬ 
tients from each 
County on Jan. 5. 
The Sum charged to each County, 
in each Year. 
§ ^ 
= s 
""rf j 
bO 
GJ 
£3 
o 
Q 
25 
35 
49 
54 
53 
54 
O 
S3 
o 
H 
Londonderry. 
Donegal. 
Tyrone. 
1830 
1*831 
1832 
1833 
1834 
1835 
£ s. d. 
1173 10 4 
2050 11 6 
2605 16 7 
2878 4 3 
2307 15 11 
2473 9 9 
£ s. d. 
t 
25 10 34- 
20 16 5 
20 3 4 
16 2 94 
16 17 24- 
21 
36 
48 
50 
48 
53 
27 
39 
45 
39 
47 
40 
1091 13 10 
897 8 0 
894 11 5i 
764 18 7 
773 18 9 
1193 11 11 
838 16 1 
998 15 94 
807 9 4 
931 16 0 
1087 14 3 
890 5 10 
806 12 9 
717 13 9 
767 5 0 
* Being a married couple they 
f Nothing was paid this year. 
receive a joint salary. 
The items of expense are included in that following. 
