Refutation of the assertions made by the writer of the article in the Quarterly Review : for October, 1844, entitled Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, pp. 436-441, as far as they relate to the conduct and practice of the Warneford Asylum on Headington Hill, near Oxford : and also an appeal to Parliament on behalf of the non-chargeable poor when visited by lunacy, and for the encouragement of charitable asylums for their reception, relief, and cure ; being the substance of the Chairman's observations at the weekly meeting of the Committee of Management, Tuesday, Nov. 12, Tuesday, Nov. 19, and Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1844.

  • Thomas, Vaughan, 1775-1858.
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[1844]
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Credit: Refutation of the assertions made by the writer of the article in the Quarterly Review : for October, 1844, entitled Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, pp. 436-441, as far as they relate to the conduct and practice of the Warneford Asylum on Headington Hill, near Oxford : and also an appeal to Parliament on behalf of the non-chargeable poor when visited by lunacy, and for the encouragement of charitable asylums for their reception, relief, and cure ; being the substance of the Chairman's observations at the weekly meeting of the Committee of Management, Tuesday, Nov. 12, Tuesday, Nov. 19, and Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1844. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From the 15th of July, 1828, the date of the Act which required charitable Institutions to observe these requirements of the law, the Oxford Asylum has never failed to enforce the observance of them ; and when, to the astonishment of the Committee of Ma- nagement, the necessity of procuring such Certificates and Order was withdrawn from the clause of exemp- tion in 1832, (compare §. 51. of the Act of 1828, with §. 64. of the Act of 1832,) the following remon- strance against the withdrawal of it was sent to an Honourable Member of the House of Commons, who had watched the Bill on the behalf of the Oxford Asylum, and who had sent a copy of it to the Chairman of the Committee of Management, with a request to be favoured with any suggestions he might make upon it. Copy of a letter from Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart. M.P. to the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, dated Feb. 7, 1832. London, 7 Feb. 1832. My dear Sir, Mr. Gordon told me in reference to his notice of in- tention to bring in a Bill to amend the Laws relating to Lunatics, which notice stood for Friday last, that he proposed to leave, in statu quo, the Institutions of Charity. I did not accordingly say any thing publicly on the sub- ject. Yesterday, before the Bill was printed, it was read a second time. Be so good as to look at Clauses 50, 51, and compare them with Clause 64, (in the copy which will accompany this Letter,) and let me have your opinion. Believe me, My dear Sir, Your obliged and faithful Servant, Robert H. Inglis. Rev. Vaughan Thomas.