Annual report- 1901 : (in two vols). Vol. 1, Being the report of the Board and the reports of its committees / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1902
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Credit: Annual report- 1901 : (in two vols). Vol. 1, Being the report of the Board and the reports of its committees / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ cases of the kind in question/’ but that, as regards children, any arrangements made in the matter should not “extend, under ordinary circumstances, to the case “ of any child as to whom the Managers may have sufficient ground for supposing “ that the parent would object/* Later on, the Managers, acting on our advice, directed that it should be a condition of service at their imbecile asylums that all new officials and servants must be vaccinated or re-vaccinated if the respective medical superintendents should so order. Transfer (^ct°t>er ^ie Managers, al our suggestion, asked the Local Govern- of imbeciles ment Board for an expression of opinion as to whether it was to Hospital. permissible to transfer temporarily imbecile patients who might be suffering from infectious disease from one of the Managers’ asylums to one of their infectious hospitals for treatment. On the 26th November the Board replied that they were not aware of any authority under which the Managers could remove, temporarily, a patient from a metropolitan asylum for imbeciles to an ordinary fever hospital of the Managers; adding that they had been in communication with the Commissioners in Lunacy on the subject, from whom they had received the following expression of opinion : “ it “ would seem that the effect of such removal would be to discharge the order “ under which the patient is detained as an imbecile, and that if, after his recovery, “ it were found necessary to replace him under detention, he must first be admitted “ to his proper workhouse, and thence removed by a new order and certificate to a “ metropolitan asylum.” A proposal that the Local Government Board should be requested to obtain statutory powers in reference to this matter was subsequently rejected. On the 4th March we received with regret the announcement of the ofDr!^Elliot! C0]Qt'emplated resignation, on account of failing health, of Dr. G. S. Elliot, who for upwards of 21 years had held the important post of medical superintendent of Caterham Asylum with complete satisfaction to the Managers. On several occasions Dr. Elliot’s ripe experience had been of great assistance in special matters apart from the duties of his office, and, on the grounds of “peculiar professional qualifications” and of “special circumstances,” the Managers, with the consent of the Local Government Board, decided that he was fully entitled to an addition of eight years to his actual period of service (25 years) for the purpose of computing the amount of his superannuation allowance. Dr. Elliot ceased to hold office on the 30th June, and was succeeded by Dr. Campbell, who had occupied the position of first assistant medical officer at Caterham for nearly 19 years, and whom the Managers had decided to promote. In anticipation of the possible completion of Tooting Bee Asylum early in 1902, various steps were taken with a view to facilitate its opening for the reception of patients, one of which was the selection of a medical superintendent. Upon our recommendation, the Managers decided to promote Dr. E. LL Beresford, senior assistant medical officer at Darenth Asylum, to fill this important office, as from a date to be determined by us. At the time of the decision, Dr. Beresford had held office at Darenth for 3| years. Tooting Bee Asylum- Appoint¬ ment of medical superinten¬ dent. 8