Suggestions for the future provision of criminal lunatics / By W. Charles Hood.

  • Hood, William Charles, Sir, 1824-1870.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Suggestions for the future provision of criminal lunatics / By W. Charles Hood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    denoting derangement of mind, and a purpose of committing an indictable offence. Enrtliermore, tliey requested that the Superintendents and Pro- prietors of Asylums would favour their Board with any practical observations which their experience might suggest, and particularly desired to know what practical inconvenience (if any) may have attended the association of lunatics with the ordi- nary inmates of Asylums, as respects the feelings and comforts of the patients, and whether any and what objections are entertained to such association by their relatives and friends. One of these cir- culars I had the honour of receiving, and since replying to it, I have been induced by my official position in Eethlehem Hospital to consider the subject attentively in all its bearings; and I hope the suggestions which have occurred to me, and the observations I am about to make, will not be con- sidered irrelevant, particularly at a period when it is generally anticipated that the Government purpose — probably, in the course of the present or ensuing Session — legislating upon the alleged grievance. This cx]oectation would appear to be justified by the proceedings which have recently taken place in Parliament. On the 18th of March, 1852, the Earl of Shaftesbury, in the House of Lords, moved an address to Her Majesty, praying that Her Ma- jesty would be graciously pleased to take into con- sideration the expediency of establishing a State