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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    confined by the wrists at night, I would recommend that in such cases, the blankets should be inclosed within strong Russia sheeting, quilted. (Signed) E. P. Charles worth, [Attending Physician.] 1834;, July 9.—Resolved, That the Weekly Board do take into consideration the propriety of a Night Watch. That the W eekly Board do take measures for improving the system of Restraints, so as to prevent the injurious effects of confining the fingers of the patients. July 21.—Ordered, That the Instruments* of Restraint now produced, being unnecessary, be destroyed. Extract from the House Visitor''s Report. August 4 to 10 inclusive.—I have much satisfaction in being able to state that not a single Male patient has been under restraint since the 16th of July, and not one Female patient since the 1st of August, and then only for a few hours. Number of Patients—Males 41, Females 18. (Signed.,) Henry Hutton, [Visitor.] Extract from the House Visitor's Report. August 11.—I have much pleasure in adding my testimony to that of the preceding Visitor, in approbation of the con- tinued infrequency (as appears from the Register) of In- stances of Restraint, Privation, or Severity. The House- Surgeon will of course see that his humane' intentions in checking the use of Instruments, are not evaded by the sub- stitution of a system of violence and intimidation on the part of the attendants, for their own ease. • Strait-waistcoats, jacket and sleeves, muffs;—instruments which confine the fingers.
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