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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    This case and many others call upon me to express my regret, at the very limited means which the Institution affords for Classing the patients. At present the Epileptic, the Melancholic, the Idiotic, the Incurable, and the Convalescent all associate together, with no other separation than what is determined by their respective payments. That such an arrangement is not calculated to restore disordered minds, must strike the most common observer: and that it is contrary to the practice and experience of other Institutions, is fully shewn in the numerous enlightened Eeports which are now before the public. I am aware that the necessary improvements cannot be effected in the present exhausted state of the finances. On them however, the character and support of the Institution must eventually rest, as involving the security, the health, and the restoration of the patients, who for want of them are on many occasions confined with chains, take exercise in damp dull yards, and associate in a manner calculated to obstruct their cure. (Signed) E. P. Charleswokth, [Physician of the Month.] 1822, April 10.—Ordered, That the garden walls be raised four feet. [About this period various estimates were from time to time ordered.] October 28.—Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Board that a general boundary wall is now become a matter of imperious necessity. That William Fotherby’s proposal for building such boundary wall, to be ten feet high round the ground in front of the Asylum, be accepted: that the work be proceeded with as soon as the season of the year will permit.
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