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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ceeded, as far as the means placed at their disposal would allow. They have formed the department for the insensible and noisy male patients, and have connected it with the main building, as was especially prescribed. On the female side, both the proposed new building and the alterations of the house may be postponed, as the small number of patients does not in so pressing a manner call for a change.— Extracts from the General Bemarhs. The means of Classing the patients generally or according to circumstances will be effectually provided. The Upper Rank patients will be brought from the back to the front of the building, and The Insensible and Noisy patients will be removed from the front to the back. The Convalescents will be separated from both, and will not be placed in Galleries but in Rooms, which do not pre- sent any appearance of confinement. The distinctions [of Rank] will be more rigidly observed as the patients approach to Convalescence and as they be- come more sensible of such distinctions. The Kitchen and Noisy Cells being removed from the front to the rear, will render the whole south front of the building available for the enjoyment of the patients. Those Offices which give employment to the Female patients, will be attached to the Female side of the building. The Airing Courts will be greatly enlarged and will extend beyond the shade of the building. The front ground will be rendered sufficiently private, and the patients will not see their friends approaching the house, which is often improper. K
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