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DIRECTORY. J NORFOLK. NORWICH. 279 site a.nd furn,ishing, .of about £64,000, from the designs of Suffield, was afterwards granted to the Corporation h1 · Mr. R. M. Phipson F.R.I.B.A. of Norwich, on the block Edward VI. as an almshouse, and endowed by Queen -system, and cousist~t of a series of detached buildings con Elizabeth with the confiscated estates of George Bedman 2 nected by oorridors and surrounded by airing courts : the in 1558, Thomas Codd. mayor, bequeathed various tene building is available for 397 patients, of whom about xoo ments to the hospital, and it has since received many .occupy single rooms, the other 300 being associated to other benefactions: in 1826 and 1829 it was enlarged gether in dormitories containing from 4 to II and 30 to and now contains 103 aged men, of whom ;z6 live in 44 patients each: there are I).OW (1904) 379 patients: in cottages with their wives, and 76 women, who are boarded t88x a mortuary and stables were built near the entrance and lodged ; thet"e is a staff of 13 nurses ; the income, lodge, as well as two semi-detached cottages for the amounting to about £7,500 a year, is derived from estates artisans : wo.rkshops for the pursuit of various handicraft-a in the city and county and other sources; M.r. John Cox, owere added, and in 1895 this department was extended master. -so as to employ female npbolstresses, and all the clothing Doughty's Hospital, in Calvert street, founded in 1687 needed by the patients is now made by themselves : in by William Doughty, who bequeathed £6,ooo for its 1902 a new dormitory was built, with 30 beds, the ground erection and endowment, consists of buildings forming a. 'floor extended so as to hold 26 beds and to supply 5 quadrangle, with a garden in the centre, and will hold -single rooms, and 8 other bedrooms &c. were ·provided : 24 poor men and r9 women, each of whom receives ss. 6d. in 1903 additionaL day rooms were erected for No. 3 wE>ekly, with coals, and a suit every two years: the hos• -ward: attached to the asylum are about so ~teres of land, pital was thoroughly restored and some new buildings the cultivation of which is intrusted to the patients, under added in 1:869. direction, with very satisfactory results ; William Harris Bethel Hospital, for the insane, in Bethel street, was , M.D., F.R.C.S.Edin. superintendent; Arthur Sykes 'M.R.O. S .En g. assistant. erected 'in 1713 by Mrs. Mary Chapman, in accordance Heigham Hall, at North Heigham, is a private lunatic with the request of her deceased husband, the Rev. S. asylum for the treatment of patients belonging to the Chapman, sometime rector of Thorpe St. Andrew, near upper and middle classes ; the house stands in about 12 Norwich, and for its endowment she devised all her per acres of well-wooded grounds, and is licensed for 95 male sonal estate by will to seven trustees, giving to them -and female patients; Mr. Alfred Mottram is the licensee, the sole management of the hospital : the buildings have and A. McWilliam M.A., M.B., O.M. is the medical super been much enlarged and improved from time to time, intendent. and will now hold xoo patients; in the committee room The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, founded in 1770, is a portrait of the foundress : . the usual fee is 30s. was rebuilt in part on the old site in 1882, the first stone weekly, but this charge is modified in special circum 'being laid by H.M. the King, then Prince of Wales, 17th stances ; the rooms are comfortably furnished, a liberal June, 1879; the building is of red brick with white stone diet is allowed, and there is an ample staff of trained dressings, in n modified form of the Queen Anne style, from attendants to look after and wait upon the patients: -designs by Messrs. E. Boardman and T. H. Wyatt, archi attached to the hospital is a tennis ground, with a pavilion, tects, of Norwich and London, and was erected at a total erected in 1904. Divine service is held in the house ev~ry -cost, including furnishing, of about £57,II6: it is on the Sunday by the vicar of St. Peter's, Mancroft. "Pavilion system, the plan fol:owing the form of the letter The Girls' Hospital, New lLakenham, for the mainte 'H, the administra.tive block being in the centre, facing nance, education and training for domestic service of St. Stephen's road : the out-patients' department is en between 30 and 40 girls, has an income of about £650 tirely distinct, and has been formed in the old north-east from estates and funded property. wing, which has been further adapted for the purposes of The Magdalen Asylum or Female Home is at York villa. the anatomical museum: in the rear is a chapel in the Chapel Field road, and there are a number of minor chari