Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables, ... / by Robert Gardiner Hill.

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[1839]
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Credit: Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables, ... / by Robert Gardiner Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ingenious suggestions, for an instrument which has effectually superseded the above practice, by means of a tin vessel so contrived that the Patient, in the mere act of breathing, without having the teeth forced open, cannot resist the in- troduction of fluid nutriment. The Governors will have received copies of the Revised Rules, which were unanimously passed at a very numerous General Board after a minute examination. They have been founded on an extensive collation of the Rules of various Asylums, the works of writers on the subject, and the ex- perience of this Institution itself. It is hoped that it may not be invidious to mention the liberal code of the Establish- ment at Aberdeen, as having afforded many useful suggestions. (Signed) John Wm. Sturges, Chairman. May 6.—Ordered, That the Fire-guards have the inner wiring continued throughout their whole surface. May 13.—The House-Surgeon stated [to the Board] that the Keepers have not time to attend to the premises both within doors and without doors, without neglecting the patients. May 20.—Ordered, That a man be engaged as House- Porter and Gardener, as a trial. July 15.—That a Bell be fixed in the passage over the sitting room door of the House-Surgeon, and another over the door of the Matron, communicating with the Galleries on the Male and Female sides of the House respectively, to be rung by the Attendants on every occasion of necessity for restraint or other extraordinary circumstance happening among the Patients.
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