On the construction and management of hospitals for the insane : with a particular notice of the institution of Sieburg / by Maximilian Jacobi ; translated by John Kitching ; with introductory observations, &c., by Samuel Tuke.

  • Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi
Date:
1841
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Credit: On the construction and management of hospitals for the insane : with a particular notice of the institution of Sieburg / by Maximilian Jacobi ; translated by John Kitching ; with introductory observations, &c., by Samuel Tuke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    unweavuble; likewise the collection of all articles used in the care of a patient, when he either dies or is removed to another division. The entries of all these receipts and deliveries are made in the books, according to the existing regulations. The male and female iipper-attendants have to be present on Saturday afternoons, when the laundress gives out the clean linen for the ensuing week, in order to see that no articles ave returned either badly washed or in- sufficiently dried; the female upper-attendant has likewise to take care that every article is forthcoming, that nothing is injured by carelessness, but that all the linen is thoroughly clean, and in every respect, as it should be. 14. They must watch with a jealous eye, in every respect, over tl)e preservation of cleanliness, in all the departments of the establishment. Especially they are to notice, that the rooms, galleries, privies, and washing places, are duly cleaned and aired. And as for the attainment of this object, they have nothing to do but to keep the attend- ants in the discharge of their duties, or to inform the second physician, or the house-steward of the neglect, all the de- linquencies of this sort, are therefore laid exclusively to their charge. 15. The following are also amongst the chief obligations of the male and female upper-attendants:— First .-—That whenever a patient is ordered to take a warm bath, they test with the thermometer, in order to as- certain that the water is precisely of the temperature pres- cribed by the physician, and that they extend a general care, that baths of all kinds arc administered according to the medical instructions. Second.-'nvdliuYcgim] to the medicines delivered to the attendants, they see that the instructions given arc accu- rately observed, and that in the evening of each day, they present a written memorandum to the director of those medicines, which will be-consumed by the following noon.