Fifth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature January 19, 1848 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum
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1848
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Credit: Fifth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : made to the Legislature January 19, 1848 / New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    avoid mistakes, and to prevent patients helping themselves to medicine; therefore, all cups, vials, boxes, &c., containing medicine, should be kept locked up. Within an hour from the time of taking them from the office, the cups should be cleaned and returned to the office. In going for the cups and returning them, the attendant must not delay in the passage, nor hold any other conversation than to report to the superin¬ tendent, or physician, changes in the condition of the patients, which they are always to do immediately. 13. All damages by patients, and all their wants as to clothes and other articles necessary to put these rules in practice, are to be reported by the supervisors, to the steward or matron. Each hall has a book, in which is enumerated all the articles used in the hall, and in this book all damages and losses, and by whom occasioned, are to be entered, and no new articles can be obtained to replace them without exhibiting the book. It will be no excuse for attendants, that their rooms, beds and patients are not in ample order, to say that they have not what is necessary, for their application for such articles should be unceasing until they get them. Attendants must be par¬ ticularly careful not to break their keys; and when any door locks or unlocks with difficulty, immediate notice should be given at the office of the superintendent. 11. The attendants must never ridicule the patients, nor mock or imitate them, nor do any thing |to wound their feel¬ ings. If the patient engages in any controversy, or other improper or exciting topic of discourse, the attendant must, in the gentlest manner possible, interfere and check it; should such means fail, one of the resident officers should be informed immediately. The history, conduct and conversation of pa¬ tients must never be spoken of to visitors, nor reported by attendants when abroad, 15. Attendants must look particularly to the comfort of patients in their special charge, and visit them late at night and early in the morning. In speaking to patients of the officers, attendants should inculcate respect and confidence in their management, and carry into operation all directions and prescriptions, in the most ready and faithful manner. [Senate, Ho. 20.] 5
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