| Description | The minutes are handwritten and signed by the committee chairman. The minutes are in the volume entitled 'House Committee'. The minutes include information relating to the general financial, staffing and operational procedures in place at the Winson Green Asylum, such as accounts and income and expenditure sheets; progress of any building and maintenance works, furnishings and interior works; diet tables (with costs); medical and surgical equipment; and information on tenders and contracts granted to local suppliers with regard to the above. Also included are the reports of the Hospital Stewards and Medical Superintendent, the Quarterly Reports of the House Sub-Committee to the Committee of Visitors, statistics relating to total number of case types (without personal names), and tables detailing the numbers of patients received from other Poor Law Unions locally and nationally. |