Volume 1

The care and cure of the insane : being the reports of The Lancet Commission on Lunatic Asylums, 1875-6-7 for Middlesex, the City of London and Surrey with a digest of the principal records extant and a statistical review of the work of each asylum from the date of its opening to the end of 1875 / by J. Mortimer Granville.

  • Joseph Mortimer Granville
Date:
1877
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Credit: The care and cure of the insane : being the reports of The Lancet Commission on Lunatic Asylums, 1875-6-7 for Middlesex, the City of London and Surrey with a digest of the principal records extant and a statistical review of the work of each asylum from the date of its opening to the end of 1875 / by J. Mortimer Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    representing the thought, and playing the part of a recording apparatus to the energy, of the medical profession in this country and abroad. The reports will be reproduced as they stand ; the new matter will be distri- buted in separate paragraphs interpolated with those of the text. The Asylums, Workhouses, and Hospitals treated in the present volume are :— 1. Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, at Brookwood. Chairman of Co7nviittee—The Hon. Francis Scott. Medical Superintendent—Thos. Nadauld Brushfiekl, M.D., M.R.C.S.,etc. Assistant Medical Officer—^James Edward Barton, L.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S. . Second Assistant Medical Officer—W. A. U. Thomson, L.K.Q.C.P., F.R. C.S.I. Chaplain—R&y. J. M. Gillington, M.A. 2. Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell. Chairman of Committee—Peter Northall Laurie, Esq. Medical Superintendent of the Female Department—^J. Peeke Richards, Esq., M.R.C.S., etc. Medical Superintendait of the Male Department—Heniy Rayner, M.D., M.R.C.S. Chaplain—Rev. John May, M.A. 3. Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, at Colney Hatch. Chairman of Committee—William Henry Wyatt, Esq. * Medical Superintendent of the MaleDepart7nent—Edgar Sheppard, M.D., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., etc. Medical Superintendait of the Female Department—William Gurslave Marshall, Esq., F.R.C.S., etc. Chaplahi—Rev. Henry Hawkins, M.A. 4. Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, at Wandsworth. Chairman of Committee—Edward Hugh Leycestor Penrhyn, Esq. Medical Superintendent—]. Strange Biggs, M.D., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., etc. Assistant Medical (9^<r^r—Frederick H. Ward, Esq., M.R.C.S., etc. Second Asst. Medical <9#f^r—Ethelbert Hosking, Esq., M.R.C.S., etc. Chaplain—Rev. Charles E. Casher, M.A. 5. City of London Lunatic Asylum, at Stone, Dartford, Kent. Chairman of Cottmiittee—AlAevm^Ln Robert Besley, Esq. Medical Superintendent—OcX.z.Vm.%]^-^%on, M.D., M.R.C.S., etc. Assistant Medical (3j^<rdy-—Whitfield Perkins, Esq., M.R.C.S., etc. 6. Metropolitan Asylums for hnbeciles, classed as Workhouses, and under the control of the Local Government Board :— {a) Caterham. Chairman of Committee—WiWiam S. Cortis, Esq., M.D., etc. Medical Superintendent—]z.xriQ% Adam, M.D., L.R.C.S. Edin. Chaplain—R^y. Joshua Ground, M.A. * Now Sir William Plenry Wyatt