The fourteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1859 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1859
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Credit: The fourteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1859 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    adopted to simplify tlieir respective duties in relation to each other, giving, at the same time, additional security that the whole shall be executed in the most efficient manner, and under such additional checks as shall be for the advantage of the Asylum. In a building of such size, and occupied by so large a number of persons, works and repairs are necessarily of constant recurrence; a detail of what has taken place last year in that respect will be found in the Engineer’s Report. The Committee never give their sanction to any expenditure which is not really required, and enforce upon all the persons employed the practice of the most careful economy, at the same time considering it their duty, to the County, not to shrink from the exercise of a proper degree of responsibility in such matters. Additional provision in small Arm Chairs and round Tables has been made in several of the Wards, to promote the comfort of the well behaved Patients; and the system commenced in 1857 and continued throughout that year with much success, of appropriating small plots of ground to be cultivated as Gardens by female Patients, has this year been somewhat extended. The Court are aware, that on former occasions, the Com- • mittee have had to call attention to the very improper prac¬ tice of sending insane Females to the Asylum, in charge of Male persons only. During the present year, a female Patient, having been ordered to be removed to the County Asylum in Kent, a Male person only was sent to convey her to that Asylum ; a practice quite as objectionable, and the Committee therefore refused to deliver up the Patient into