Report of the Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital, situate in the township of Stockport Etchells near Cheadle, Cheshire : this institution is in connexion with the Manchester Royal Infirmary June, 1851.

  • Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital.
Date:
[1851?]
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Credit: Report of the Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital, situate in the township of Stockport Etchells near Cheadle, Cheshire : this institution is in connexion with the Manchester Royal Infirmary June, 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ment, without interfering with the quiet and retirement so essential in cases of insanity, is found to work very bene¬ ficially, and secures to the Institution the superintendence of a body of gentlemen, who have no pecuniary interest at stake, and whose only object is to see that its funds are administered with the greatest consideration for the comfort and well-being of those whom they are intended to relieve. In confirmation of their own opinion, the Committee beg to call special attention to the accompanying Reports of Her Majesty’s Commissioners in Lunacy, which were made on the occasion of their two last visits:— Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital, April 9th, 1851. Since the last visit of the Commissioners, 12 patients have been admitted, 5 have been discharged—of whom 4 were recovered and 1 relieved. Within the same period 3 have died; the causes of death being serous apoplexy, phthisis, pulmonalis, and exhaustion, with gastric derange¬ ment respectively. There are now 25 patients in the house, namely, 17 gentlemen and 8 ladies. We have to-day seen and conversed with the whole of them, and found them at the time of our visit orderly and tranquil. One of the gentlemen was restrained by means of a leathern belt and wrist strap. The patients were well and suitably clad, and several of them were occupied in the garden, and others in various in-door occupations. One gentleman is engaged in the construction of a turning lathe, which it is intended to employ in the construction of various articles of furniture for the rooms of the patients. The various apartments occupied by the patients were remarkably clean and free from any offensive smell. Each