Report on lunatic asylums / by Fredc. Norton Manning.
- Manning, Frederick Norton, 1839-1903.
- Date:
- 1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report on lunatic asylums / by Fredc. Norton Manning. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![Kepoi'ta, with copies of rules and regulations, from almost everj English and American asylum visited, as well as from several of those on the Continent; Copies of the French and Belgian Government Kegulations for the Adminis- tration of Asylums; The French Statistics of Insanity ; The Eeport of the English Parliamentary Commissions on Lunatics ; and besides these, a large number of books, pamphlets, and papers on asylum construc- tion and organization. These materials having been collected, it became a matter for anxious considera- tion in what form the mass of information contained in them, digested and systematized, coidd be submitted to the Government of New South Wales, so as to carry out the special objects of the Commission. After mature deliberation, it appeared best .to draw- up a !Ro])ort of British and Foreign Hospitals for the Insane, not according to mere geo- graphical division, but according to the general principles of construction and organization; and to supplement tliis by a series of suggestions for the establishment of an asylum system, and the construction and management of asylums—with particular reference to local and other conditions existing in 'Ne^v South Wales, drawn from the above report, from books and papers, and, indeed, fi'om all the sources of information lo which travels and inquiries have given access.* * In this Eeport few comments are ventured, upon any want of order, arrangement, or cleanliness in the asylums visited, or comparisons made, which may seem invidious, between the ditlerent institutions. It is thought that the wishes of the New South Wales Government will be best earned out by noticing all ;, that is worthy of imitation, and passing lightly over special faults dependent on management, and not on structure, except where such laults may illustrate a point in the Report, or afford evidence of value against 1 % system of management. The G-ovemment of Netv South Wales is engaged in remodelling its own institutions on the excellences of those of the principal European and American establislmients—not ill discovering abuses and correcting error:- in those less worthy of imitation. ■I :i I s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21292450_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
