Report of the medical officers of the Lunatic Asylum for the County of Lancaster : instituted 28th July 1816 1850.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1850
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Credit: Report of the medical officers of the Lunatic Asylum for the County of Lancaster : instituted 28th July 1816 1850. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the same as in winter, owing to the existence of the cholera in the country. “We beg to suggest for the consideration of the Visiting Justices, the expediency of warming some of the lower portions of the building, more particularly on the female-side. “ The state of the Asylum is at present very satisfactory; the whole appearing to us to be under careful and judicious superin¬ tendence on both sides of the establishment. [Signed] B. W. PROCTER, “ SAMUEL GASKELL, It is satisfactory again to advert to the feeling of harmony and unanimity of purpose which exists amongst all our officers and servants, animating all alike to that exertion which can alone secure the prosperity and well-being of a large establishment: and at the same time, in no slight degree, contributing to lighten individual responsibility, and lessen the monotony of the discharge of duties which are often painful, and always onerous. We would desire before closing our report, to offer our earnest thanks to the Visitors for the readiness with which they have always listened to our suggestions of improvement, their liberality in carrying out our views in the management of the Asylum, and the continued confidence they have invariably manifested towards us. EDWD. D. DE VITRE, M. D. JOHN BROADHURST, Surgeon and Superintendent* County Lunatic Asylum, July, 1850.