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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    powerful and violent patients. The circumstances which occurred yesterday will demonstrate to the Board the reason- ableness and justness of this request. Number of Patients—Males 6, Females 5. (Signed) H. V. Bayley, Visitor. 1821, March 5.—Ordered, That Mr. Willson be desired to make the end cell in the Noisy Patients’ Lower Gallery secure, for the safety of a powerful and violent Patient. March 28.—Ordered, That two doors of the cells in the Upper Gallery for male patients, be secured in the same manner as those below, [i. e. with massive bolts and iron facings.] August 20.—Order for an estimate of a wooden fence, to be five feet high, round the front grounds, on account of the escape of a patient. Physician's Report. 1821, October 21.—No. —. I shall here observe that from the present very insecure state of the Asylum for want of an outer wall of sufficient height to prevent escapes, this and other patients are kept almost constantly fettered: it is not safe to allow them exercise even in the inner yards, except in that state : while the garden and front ground are rendered useless, not only to them but to the majority of the patients. Their comforts and the hopes of their recovery are thus so greatly abridged, that I cannot but request the earnest attention of the Governors to this point, as affecting the main interests of the Institution. I trust that they will see the necessity of appropriating the earliest accumulation of the funds to this object, by finishing the outer back (the garden) wall, and building a low wall round the front ground with a deep sunk fence within. (Signed) E. P. Ciiarleswokth, [Physician of the Month.]
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