The London County Council Asylum at Claybury, and a Sketch of its first Working Year

1897 ◽  
Vol 43 (180) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Jones
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
County Council ◽  
Building Site ◽  
The Hill

This is the first asylum of the London County Council and the fifth for London, and it stands on a hill 230 feet above ordnance datum in a freehold estate of 269 acres, one-and-a-half miles from Woodford Station, on the Great Eastern Railway. It is about nine miles from the Royal Exchange. The ground was bought by the Middlesex Justices for £39,415. They first visited the spot on 27th February, 1886, almost seven years before patients were received. About 70 acres of the ground is woodland, and the soil is clay with beds of gravel interspersed. The Justices proceeded to fence in the estate, build two lodges, lay down a granite tramway from these to the building site, and level the top of the hill, a plateau of about a dozen acres in extent, for all the central and some of the outside blocks, and also to complete the foundations, when the Local Government Act of 1888 transferred the care of lunatics and the management of County Asylums to the County Councils.

The Police and Government

1970 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 190-190
Author(s):  
Laurence Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
County Council

We have invited Mr. Laurence Welsh, a former administrative officer with the London County Council, and a former secretary of its Staff Association, who writes for several local government papers, to contribute a monthly feature on police topics in central and local governmental circles.

The Maintenance of Pauper Lunatics

1897 ◽  
Vol 43 (182) ◽  
pp. 672-673
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
County Council ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Early Age ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cumberland County ◽  
Definite Answer ◽  
Lunatic Asylums ◽  
The Government

The President of the Local Government Board received a deputation from the County Councils Association in reference to the growing burden imposed upon the rates by the increase of the number of persons confined in lunatic asylums. The deputation consisted of Sir John Hibbert, Lord Thring, Mr. Hobhouse, M.P., Sir E. Edgeumbe (Dorset), Mr. M. F. Blackiston (Clerk to the Staffordshire County Council), Mr. F. C. Hulton (Clerk to the Lancashire County Council), Mr. C. B. Hodgson (Clerk to the Cumberland County Council), Mr. Trevor Edwards (Solicitor to the West Riding County Council), and the Rev C. Royds, Mr. J. Brierley, Mr. B. Carver, and Mr. T. Scholfield, members of the Lancashire Asylums Board. The deputation recommended that the grant of 4s. a week at present given to Boards of Guardians to pay for pauper lunatics in County Asylums, Registered Hospitals, and Licensed Houses should also be given for chronic pauper lunatics (whom they defined as harmless lunatics), who are maintained in workhouse wards under special regulations and to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in Lunacy; that, as it is not desirable that idiots (idiots and imbeciles from birth or early age) should be treated in a lunatic asylum, the 4s. grant should, wherever idiots are kept at the public expense, be payable in regard to such idiots to the authority maintaining them to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in Lunacy; that each County Council should be required to appoint visitors of those idiots in respect of whom the 4s. grant is made, and who are kept in places other than lunatic asylums; and that it is not desirable to express an opinion on the question of extending the 4s. grant to idiots boarded out or maintained at home. Mr. Chaplin, in reply, said he was not prepared to give a definite answer as to whether he could advise the Government to bring in a Bill to give effect to the recommendations. He required time to consider the matter more fully, and especially to enquire how the Boards of Guardians throughout the country would be affected if the proposals of the County Councils Association became law.

American Psychiatry and its Practical Bearings on the Application of Recent Local Government and Mental Treatment Legislation, Including a Description of the Author's Participation in the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene, Washington, D.C., May 5–10, 1930

1930 ◽  
Vol 76 (314) ◽  
pp. 456-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Lord
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
County Council ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Mental Treatment

Dr. Petrie's paper is mainly descriptive of American psychiatric institutions, and deals only briefly in its conclusion with his impressions of American psychiatry in its various fields. My paper, however, deals principally with the latter subject and avoids the former as much as possible. It is also my duty to report on my mission as the representative of the London County Council and of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association at the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene.

The streets for the people: London's street markets 1850–1939

Urban History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
VICTORIA KELLEY
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
County Council ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Primitive Form ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
The People ◽  
Organic Growth ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTThis article analyses London's street markets in the years between 1850 and 1939. It shows how this was a period of significant growth for street markets, with both steeply increasing numbers of markets and a steady increase in the number of stalls overall. These markets were informal and unauthorized for much of the period under discussion; the administrative/local government context was complex, and competing authorities (the City of London, London County Council, metropolitan boroughs and national government) hesitated in regulating the organic growth of street market trading, while also recognizing the contribution it made to bringing cheap food and commodities to the population of London. It will be argued that the street market, far from being merely the survival of a primitive form of retail, flourished in response to modernity in London. It should be analysed alongside other developing forms of retail, and considered for its contribution to the culture and material culture of the city.

Hinterland Politics

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. W. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
County Council ◽  
Rural District ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Distinguishing Features

The Royal Commission on Local Government in England argued that size and proximity to an urban centre were important factors in explaining the differing degrees of parish political activity. This paper examines in more detail the reasons for the differing degrees of activity drawing upon my study in the Oxford area for illustrative examples. It must be emphasized at the very outset that the main objective of this paper is to suggest reasons for the variations in activity and not to compare the degrees of political activity in the Oxford area. In particular, I argue that proximity to an urban centre (location within the immediate hinterland) is more important than size and that there are three distinguishing features associated with location within the immediate hinterland. The distinguishing features are the rapidly growing parishes (size); the high expectations of suburban residents with regard to the standard of service provision (expectations); and the under-representation of the immediate hinterland on the County Council and the Rural District Councils (under-representation).

Cirencester 1962: Third Interim Report

1963 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Wacher
Keyword(s):  
County Council ◽  
The South ◽  
Urban District ◽  
Building Site ◽  
Rescue Work ◽  
Police Station ◽  
District Council ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Town ◽  
Station Site

The excavations of 1962 were originally planned to take place on three sites: the Amphitheatre, which lies outside the town wall a little to the south-west; a rescue excavation in a derelict garden in Coxwell Street; and a section across the front of the south-east defences at a point about 200 feet west of Miss Rennie's section cut through them in 1952. A week after the start, news came that work for a new police station was to commence during the current financial year, on a site north of Dyer Court, which our Fellow Dr. Graham Webster investigated in 1957. With such short notice, rescue work had to begin here almost at once. Imminent development of yet another building-site, in Victoria Road, was reported towards the end of the excavations, which had to be extended for a fortnight to meet this fresh emergency. Five sites have thus been dealt with this year instead of three, an undertaking of considerable magnitude, and the Committee here records its most grateful thanks to each of those bodies who contributed towards the expenses; to all those who assisted the excavations; to the Gloucestershire County Council for permission to explore the police station site; to the Cirencester Urban District Council for permission to dig in Coxwell Street; to Lord Bathurst for permission to dig at the Amphitheatre; to Mr. Harry Pitts for permission to cut a section across the southern defences; and to Messrs. R. van Gelder, Keen and Co. Ltd.

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