Plain directions for dealing with an insane patient / by J.M. Winn.

  • Winn, James M. (James Michell), 1808-1900.
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Plain directions for dealing with an insane patient / by J.M. Winn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the patient resides, and in which the Medical Visitor at his periodical visits must make entries also, for the in- spection of the Commissioners, respecting the patient, under the following heads :— Date. Mental State and Progress. Bodily- Health and Condition. Restraint or seclusion since last entry ? When and how long ? By what means, and for what reason ? Visits of Friends. State of House, bed, and bedding, &c. When the patient is discharged, the following notice must be filled up by the proprietor of the house and sent to the Commissioners in Lunacy within two clear days after such discharge :— I hereby give you notice, that A. B, a (a) House, single patient, received into this (a) House on the Seventh day of December, 1869, was o^eUeye'ror ’ cliscliaioed therefrom, (b) recovered by the not improved. ailthority of his father, C. B.,on the Tenth day of March, 1870. (c) Superin- tendent or Proprietor of House or]l Hospital at Signed, C. D., (c) Proprietor of Nelson Villa, 8, Cornwall Eoad, Kennington. Dated this Eighth day of March, One- thousand, eight hundred and seventy To the Commissioners in Lunacy.