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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    Committee ; that it would be unsafe and dangerous to make such complete and entire separation as has been suggested by other authorities. Upon the subject of the tranquillity and well-being of the Patients during the past year, as exhibited by the number of Seclusions, the Committee desire to call the attention of the Court to the reports of Dr. Begley and Dr. Sankey, from which it will be seen, that while on the one hand there has been a very trifling increase among the Males, there has, on the other, been a remarkable decrease among the Female Patients. The progress which has been made by the contractor in the New Buildings, will be found detailed in the accompany¬ ing Iieport from the Architect. The Committee of Visitors, while stating to the Court, in January, 1858, their disappointment that all the advantage had not been taken which the season had offered in 1857, expressed, at the same time, the hope that greater progress would be made in the season then about to commence. They are bound now to say that that hope has not been fully realized; for although a considerable amount of work has been executed, no parts of the New Buildings have been so far completed as to be fit for occupation, except the residences of the Medical Officers, one additional Ward on the Male side, and some few of the Day-rocms; some of the Day • rooms, indeed, only in a temporary manner. They particularly regret that greater progress has not been made towards completing internally, for occupation, many parts of the building which are externally finished.