The third annual report of the North Wales Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1851.
- North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The third annual report of the North Wales Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE. s The Committee of Visitors of tlie North Wales Asylum, in presenting their : Third Report to the Subscribers and to the Justices of the united Counties ] have, with certain drawbacks, to which their attention has been forcibly called by the Report of their Medical Officers, and which they are not dis- t posed to gloss over or to conceal, much satisfaction in being enabled to convey a continued favorable impression of the general state of this In- i stitution. In making this representation, they wish it rather to be considered in contrast with what the state of Lunacy has been in Wales, and they may add generally in England, than what they deem it ought to be; and what with very little exertion on the part of those to whom the control and management of the Asylum is entrusted, namely the House Visitors and Medical Officers of the Asylum, it doubtless might be. The Committee, in concurrence with the views held by the Medical Of¬ ficers, have had sufficient experience to declare their decided opinion that it is their duty to progress in adopting every improvement that can be sug¬ gested in the cure of those committed to their charge, and that not to pro¬ gress in such treatment with the many improvements that are constantly presenting themselves to their notice, would in fact be to recede from the high position which they have endeavoured not without some degree of success to attain. It is not, however, with some ideal state of perfection that the Committee consider they have at present to deal, but with actual wants which they have to contend for, and for which they are now com¬ pelled to call upon the general body of Visitors to assist them, either by their own authority or by their influence, with their several Courts of Quar¬ ter Sessions to provide. It is now happily notorious that through the truly humane abolition of all mechanical restraints and all bodily coercion the two great objects to be sought for in the moral treatment of the Insane are employment and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30314859_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
