The seventeenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1862 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].
- Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell
- Date:
- 1862
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The seventeenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1862 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Upon the whole, it is, perhaps, matter of congratulation that the cases are so few, where the body of Attendants and Nurses is so very considerable. Nurse Sarah Graham was discharged, having been found intoxicated. Mary Heaton, a nurse, was dismissed for insubordination in positively refusing to obey a Medical order from Dr. Sankey that a Shower Bath should be given to a Patient. Nurse Eliza Parnell was discharged for refusing to obey an order of the Head Attendant to accompany Female] Patients into the front ground. Attendant Henry Levick was dismissed for using highly improper and obscene language to the Head Attendant of the Ward. Attendant William Gale was dismissed for striking a Patient. And Bichard Jones was dismissed for obscene language. Nurse Amelia Hamshaw was dismissed for having been seen by the Matron, kneeling on the body of a Female Patient, who, in a state of great excitement, was resisting the eildeavours of other Nurses to change the Patient’s boots, the Patient having been laid on the bed to enable them to do so. It is true, that no bodily injury was inflicted, but it is so well known that the most serious mischief may arise from such a practice, and it is so strongly the determination of the Committee to punish it, that the Nurse was dismissed from the Asylum.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30308021_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
