The fourteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1865 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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[1865]
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Credit: The fourteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1865 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. COPY OF LETTER TO THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY. 33, Milner Square, Islington, 20th October, 1864. Sir, The Committee of Visitors of the Comity Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch have considered with due atten¬ tion the entry made by the two Commissioners in Lunacy, who recently visited the Institution, and they have examined in detail the several suggestions made for the additional comfort of the Patients under their care. The Committee observe with pleasure that the Com¬ missioners were fully sensible of the improved system now ruling at this Asylum, and of the consequent greater efficiency of the Subordinate Officers ; and they believe that by steadily, but gradually, persevering in these improvements, they are likely to obtain the result they desire, viz.:—a perfect supervision over the Patients, accompanied by as many comforts as are befitting the status of a Pauper Lunatic Asylum. It seems, however, to the Committee that the great point of difference between the Commissioners in Lunacy and themselves is, that, while the former recommend alterations without any very great consideration for their pecuniary cost, the latter feel that this is a subject which should not be lost sight of by