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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    Extracts from the House Visitor''s Report, 1829, August 17.—Every attention seems to be paid to the Patients, whose general state has I understand, for some time past, been so generally good, that it is gi'atifying to say the Strait-Waistcoat has almost become useless. Number of Patients—Males 29, Females 13. (Signed) Henry Hutton, [Visitor.] 1829, September 21.—The Director having applied for a Belt and a pair of Hobbles to be placed in the Keeper’s room in the North Gallery, on account of some of the Pa- tients, who are subject to sudden fits of violence:—Ordered that a Belt and Hobbles be placed there accordingly. October 19.—Ordered, That whenever the Director thinks it essentially necessary to place any Instruments of Eestraint at the disposal of the inferior Keepers, he shall enter the Number and Place on Saturday at the foot of his Journal of Bestraints, taking the opinion of the Board or Physician when practicable. 1829, November 30, — Ordered, That the Director’s “ Journal,” “ Register of Restraints,” and “ Register of Per- sons daily maintained” be made up by him not later than ten o’clock in the morning for the day and night preceding. 1830, November 29.—Ordered, That the Director have power to procure List-shoes for any patient, who he has reason to think would do injury with his feet. Extract from the Seventh Annual Report. 1831, March 28.—A new Director* has also been elected, in recording whose appointment, the Governors would not do justice either to their own feelings or to his merits, if they did not bear a willing testimony to the zeal and fidelity. Mr, Henry Marston.
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