Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
- Date:
- 1847
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![Condition of the house very satisfactory at each of these visits. 1831. July 24. December 30. 1832. March 28. Premises perfectly clean, and every attention paid to the pa- July u. tients. Religious service suspended, owing1 to the cholera. House in a highly creditable state. No fresh case of cholera for August 5. the last fortnight j and the Commissioners commend the care and zeal of the medical attendants. Divine service suspended, owing to the cholera. [About this time the White House was appropriated to female patients only.] 1833. The house not so comfortable as at previous visits, which is January 12. attributed to the confusion consequent on moving the patients. The Superintendent states that he has employed as many as 170 patients at one time. Nothing to require extract. Numbers of the patients employed f April 30. vary apparently from sixty to between eighty and ninety; and<j gg|^e^er 5 about sixty attend Divine service. [November 29. 1834. Seventy-two patients employed. The Superintendents have pro- March 17. vided books of amusement for the patients according to the direc- tions of the Commissioners, and have complied with their recom- mendations as to variation of diet. Food tasted and approved. From fifty-two to eighty-six patients employed. At the second J June 2. visit provisions tasted and examined. [November 19 1835. Many of the patients employed. A liberal supply of books from March 29. the library recently established in the house. jul^4f RED AND WHITE HOUSES (.Bethnal Green). (1835.) The Commissioners find that a library of 500 volumes 1835. lias been provided for the use of the patients; 90 of the male pauper patients employed, and many of the females. (183G.) The Commissioners suggest that employment should be *835. provided for more of the patients, 00 of 148 males, and 55 of 180 females, being occupied. (1837.) The number of male patients employed amounts nearly i*37 to 100, and in May the Commissioners find that a shoemaker’s z 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21902756_0353.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
