Reply to the statements contained in a pamphlet and letter by Dr. Oliver, Carlisle, on the expediency of erecting a public asylum for the insane, belonging to the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland / [Jonathan E. Wilkinson].

  • Wilkinson, Jonathan E.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Reply to the statements contained in a pamphlet and letter by Dr. Oliver, Carlisle, on the expediency of erecting a public asylum for the insane, belonging to the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland / [Jonathan E. Wilkinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    5/18
    TO EDWARD WILLIAMS HASELL, ESQ., CHAIRMAN OF THE QUARTER SESSIONS FOR THE COUNTIES OF CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND, Sir, My attention has lately been called to a Pamphlet ad¬ dressed to you, intituled “ Suggestions as to the expe¬ diency of erecting a public Asylum for the Insane belong¬ ing to the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, by Richard Oliver, M. D. and also to a Letter, dated 23d May, from this gentleman, inserted in the Carlisle Journal of the 18th June last, in reference to the same subject. I perfectly agree with many of the writeEs observations in respect to the nature and general management of Luna~ tics, but I cannot allow his rather sweeping observations against private or licensed Asylums to pass unnoticed, and especially as applied to this neighbourhood in particular. I am not volunteering as the advocate of private Asylums either here or elsewhere, but I believe yourself and brother magistrates are perfectly aware that I have had confided to my care, for some years past, a considerable number of the patients suffering under this malady from the county of Cumberland, in consequence of which, I feel bound in justice to my own character and establishment, to submit to you in particular, and to the public generally, a state¬