The third annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1854 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch
Date:
1854
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Credit: The third annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1854 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Rules of which have not already been submitted to the Secre¬ tary of State, and of every Asylum hereafter to be established, shall submit General Rules to the Secretary of State for approval, which, when approved, shall be printed, abided by, and observed. Now it will be seen that the case of an Asylum like this, where General Rules have (under the 8th and 9th Viet., c. 126) been approved by the Secretary of State, is entirely unprovided for ; for the Act does net confirm them, and it is doubtful indeed whether they may be considered valid and in force since the repeal of the Act under which they were made, if they do not fall within the proviso in sec¬ tion 1 of the new Act. This omission is the more unfortunate, from the circumstance that the same Section goes on to provide that every such Committee («. e. of an Asylum whose Rules have not previously been approved, or of an Asylum hereafter to be established) may determine upon the number of beds which may be reserved for certain cases, and may exclude from admission into their Asylum persons afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease or malady, or coming from a neighbourhood in which such may be prevalent. Another omission occurs in the 80th Section. This Section enacts that Visitors may require Parish or Union Officers to remove Lunatics upon their discharge, to the Workhouse, at the cost of the Parish or Union,—there they may be pro¬ vided for. But no provision is made for County Patients, and it would be very advisable, your Committee suggest, that some power be given to Visitors to remove County Patients to the Workhouse of the Parish from which they were originally sent to the Asylum, and to order the County Trea¬ surer to defray the costs of such removal. %/ It is very desirable also that the 107th Section should be extended, so as to provide that the party obtaining the order
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