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Explains the plans for converting Devonshire College into a Lunatic Asylum. Encloses...

Catalogue reference: CO 37/202/76

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This record is about the Explains the plans for converting Devonshire College into a Lunatic Asylum. Encloses... dating from 1872 Sept 12 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 37/202/76
Date
1872 Sept 12
Description

Explains the plans for converting Devonshire College into a Lunatic Asylum. Encloses three manuscript coloured plans of the buildings and proposed extensions that were drawn on tracing cloth by Colonial Surveyor Philip Ness. 'Design for Insane Asylum' is on a scale of one inch to 10 feet, in sections, with overlays and a compass indicator. 'Sections of Male of Female Wards' is on a scale of one inch to four feet in transverse and longitudinal sections. 'Longitudinal Section…for Better Class Patients and Quarters for Assistant Keeper etc' is on a scale of one inch to four feet.

John Henry Lefroy, Governor of Bermuda, No. 64, Folios 426-447

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
10248/1872
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Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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