Minutes of evidence taken by the Committee appointed to inquire into the charges preferred against Dr. Wright, the Apothecary and Superintendent of Bethlehem Hospital, and his answer.

  • Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1830
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Credit: Minutes of evidence taken by the Committee appointed to inquire into the charges preferred against Dr. Wright, the Apothecary and Superintendent of Bethlehem Hospital, and his answer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BRIDEWELL AND BETHLEM HOSPITALS. SPECIAL COMMITTEE* MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN AT BETHLEM HOSPITAL. THURSDAY, SEPT. 30, 1830. • ^ THOMAS COLES, ESQUIRE, IN THE CHAIR. [Copy from Mr. Gurney's Short-Hand Notes.] Dr. Wright attended the Committee, and was informed that it was intended, in consequence of the resolution of the General Court, to take the whole of the evidence afresh. Mr. Nathaniel Nicholls, Steward of the Hospital, examined by the Committee. Will you state to the Committee what you know, of your own know¬ ledge, respecting the intoxication of Dr. Wright on the 25th of Au¬ gust ?—I had been out with my wife to drink tea with a friend on the night of the 25th of August, and returned at about a quarter-past eleven o’clock. On my entering the hospital-door I was accosted by James Blackall, the assistant-keeper, whose turn it was to be on the watch that night: he repeated to me that Dr. Wright had been found in the female basement that evening in a very intoxicated state. I went into my house immediately and fetched the night lamp, and proceeded to the female basement, where I saw the two female keepers, Phoebe Jeals and Sarah Jubb. I then proceeded to inquire the par¬ ticulars which had happened, and Phoebe Jeals stated to me, that about twenty minutes before ten o’clock, Dr. Wright came down to her in the basement for the purpose of visiting a sick patient: that he remained there until ten o’clock, when Sarah Jubb, her fellow-keeper, who had been absent from the Hospital that evening on leave, rung the bell for admission. Phoebe Jeals told me that when the bell rung, b 2