Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st of December, 1857 : with appendix.

  • Bedford Lunatic Asylum
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1858
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Bedford Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending the 31st of December, 1857 : with appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Committee, at the annual meeting in February last, discussed the various suggestions and recommendations of the Commissioners, the result of which is contained in the following memoranda :—- 1. The harmless and incurable cases are discharged as frequently as the Resident Medical Superintendent finds such patients fit to he recommended to the committee for that purpose, and Mr. I)enne will continue to direct his attention to that subject, 2. Matting has already been provided for some of the stone and slate floors, and an additional quantity will be provided for the other sleeping apartments. 3. Many of the perpendicular bars have already been removed under a former order of the committee, and the residue will be taken down as early as practicable. 4. The walls of the airing courts will be improved as far as it may be considered advisable to alter the structural arrangements of the building. 5. The patients are frequently taken out in the country in large numbers, and the Committee have granted small sums towards excursion trips ; the same course will be continued by Mr. and Mrs. Denne.