Standing rules and orders for the government of the royal hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem : with the duty of the governors, and of the several officers and servants : as finally arranged and confirmed at a general court, held April 1st, 1802.

  • Bridewell Royal Hospital.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Standing rules and orders for the government of the royal hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem : with the duty of the governors, and of the several officers and servants : as finally arranged and confirmed at a general court, held April 1st, 1802. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The THREE GALLERY MAIDS ARE to be in their Galleries at six o’clock in Summer, and seven in Winter, and to open the doors of the cells, that the Patients may come out of their rooms : To carry down to the Stove-Room such Patients as ought to be put there, and afterwards turn out the low-spirited and such as are mopish, and then clean the cells and galleries. They are carefully to remove the old straw, and provide fresh; to remove the Patients that are dirty from one cell to another, to wash their dirty cells, and take away such provisions as may be found every morning; to receive the linen and other necessaries brought in with the Pa- tients by their friends, and take an account thereof in writing, that they may be delivered up when the Patient is discharged, or, if torn, that the pieces may be returned, to shew that they have not been purloined : To assist in bringing in the Women Patients to the Sub-Committee on Saturdays. They are not to accept of any gratuity, on any Pretence whatsoever, on pain of being dis- charged. i hey are to examine carefully the feet of every Patient in chains or straw, and to rub and