Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor : presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / [by the Earl of Shaftesbury].

  • London (England). Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor : presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / [by the Earl of Shaftesbury]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Gateshead Fell, Asylum at, 43 ; improvement iu, 45 ; case of escape from, 72, 111, note, 198 ; religious observances at, 161. Gloucester Asylum, United County and Subscription Asylum establishe d under 48 Geo. III. c. 96, and 9 Geo. IV. c. 40,9; fire at, 14, note yards at, good, 15, note; mode ofwarming and ventilating, 19,20 arrangement of sleeping-cells in, 21 ; fund for relief of Paupo Patients discharged from, 27; expense of, for Paupers, 31 ; en- larged, 84; occupation of Patients at, 131 ; non-restraint system practised at, 140 ; practice as to admission of Patients into, 166. Great Foster House, near Egham, case of beneficial Restraint at, 148. Great Wigston, neglect of magistrates in visiting, 68. Guy's Hospital, Lunatic Ward in, included in class of Public Hos- pitals, 10 ; practice at, an exception from general rule of Public Hospitals, as to patients defraying their own expenses, 32. Halstock, Dorset, defective accommodation at Asylum there, 40. Hanwell Asylum, a County Asylum, established under 48 Geo. III. c. 96, and Geo. I'V. c. 40, 9 ; fire at, 14, note; disadvantages of its situation, 15 ; grounds at, spacious, ib. note ; want of water at, 16; defective ventilation at, 17, 20, 22 ; basement stories used for Patients, 22; use of galleries as day rooms, 22; yards at, 23, 152; disadvantages of its extreme magnitude, 24; proposed extension of, 25 ; attendants at, ib.; difficulty of maintaining order in, ib.; fund for relief of Pauper Patients discharged from, 27; appointment of Governor at, 28; escapes from, 74; in a crowded state, 83; establishment and subsequent enlargement of, 86 ; rule for admission into, 87; nearly filled with incurable Lunatics, 88, 89 ; cost of, 89; table of length of Patients' con- finement at, 94 ; cost of Patients in, ib.; eflrect of improve- ment of diet in, 118 ; non-restraint system practised at, 140 ; use of solitary confinement at, 147; means adopted for cure of dirty habits at, 148 ; religious observances at, 163. Haslar, Naval Hospital at, 31; non-restraint system practised at, 140. Haverfordwest, Asylum at, established under special Act, but included in Class of County Asylums, 9 ; formerly a gaol, 15 ; possesses no resident Medical Officer, 28; detail of abuses there, 4.6 et seq. ; case respecting, laid before Law Officers of the Crown, 51; their opinion, ib.; wholly unfit for treatment and cure of the Insane, 52 ; no provision for occupation, amusement, or exercise of Patients made at, 134 ; number of Patients in, 186. Hilsea, connection of Asylum at, with Workhouses, 42 ; steps taken by Commissioners for amendment of, 66 ; deficient accommoda- tions for exercise, and want of employment at, 133. Hook Norton, Asylum at, 42. Hoxton, Asylum at, 44; deficient in accommodation for exercise, 134; use of restraint at, 145. Hull, Workhouse at, established under special Act, but iucluded in class of County Asylums, 9. Idiocy congenita], defined, 108.
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