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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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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    Extract from the Physician's Report. 1823, Fehruary 28.—I once more wish to press upon the attention of the Governors the expediency of taking measures for Classing the patients. The Association of the men has now become so insiipport- ahly inconvenient, that some of them are kept almost con- stantly in manacles, or apart in the maniacal cells, to protect the weak and quiet from the outrages of the strong: (see occasional Reports of the Physician and of the Director.) (Signed) E. P. Chaklesworth, [Physician of the Month.] House Visitor's Report. 1823, March 3.—I beg to observe that two patients of the names of —— and were confined in irons, the for- mer by having an iron bar between his legs, (of which he complained very much,) which prevented his closing them together; and the other by having his hands confined by handcuffs, and were with the other patients in the Gallery. I therefore thought proper to enquire the reason of their being so confined, when I was informed that was al- ways tearing his clothes and pulling the other patients about, and that was in the habit of breaking the windows. I therefore think it right to mention this circumstance as a corroborating proof how necessary it is in my opinion, (with deference to that of others,) and how desirable it would be, if a Classification could be made. Number of Patients—Men 17, Women 4. (Signed) Jonx Faedell, [Visitor.] House Visitors Report. 1823, October 13.—With the means of accommodation, which the Asylum at present affords, every thing seems going
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