Remarks on the construction of public hospitals for the cure of mental derangement : read to a committee of inhabitants of the city of Glasgow, appointed to receive plans, with a view to that object / by William Stark.

  • William Stark
Date:
1810
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Credit: Remarks on the construction of public hospitals for the cure of mental derangement : read to a committee of inhabitants of the city of Glasgow, appointed to receive plans, with a view to that object / by William Stark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    either way, its plan of classification and of super- intendence will be complete; nor can these at all be disturbed by any future extension of the building, if followed out on the same plan. It ought, however, to be noticed, that a great deal of temporary inconvenience, and, not improbably, of irreparable mischief, may be occasioned to the patients, by the introduction of workmen among them; and that an unavoidable extra expense must be incurred by every new addition or alteration. In Another point of view, the immediate com- pletion of the design seems of importance. There can be no doubt that the particular ends of the Institution will be better obtained on a large, than on a contracted scale. In the former, the re- quired separation of the cases of insanity can be effected, without the counteracting disadvantages of solitude; and the patients, arranged in wards of moderate size, will enjoy that society with each other, which is found by experience to be highly conducive to their recovery. The expenses of the establishment too will be smaller, in proportion to the number of patients; and it is almost super- fluous to add, that the expertness and address of the servants of the Institution, and the skill of the medical attendants, in the treatment of a disease little connected with ordinary practice, will in- crease in the same proportion.