Report of the superintendent of the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum, Rainhill : instituted January 1, 1852.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum at Rainhill
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report of the superintendent of the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum, Rainhill : instituted January 1, 1852. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In this Report I have purposely refrained from making any remarks on the subject—a most important one—of the de¬ tention of criminal lunatics in County Asylums; but, as this is likely soon to become the subject of legislation, I would respectfully urge upon the Committee the advantage of making some representation to her Majesty’s Home Secretary, of the necessity existing for some separate Asylum for this class of lunatics. I am thankful, in closing my report of the first year’s pro¬ ceedings of our Institution, to be able to bear testimony to the readiness, energy, and zeal, which I have uniformly found in the officers and servants employed in the care of the pa¬ tients in the Asylum. My especial thanks are due to the Rev. Joseph Bush, our chaplain, for the cordiality with which he has seconded, in his department, my views as to the treatment of the Insane, and for his judicious administration of religious counsel and comfort to the patients; nor would I forget gratefully to acknowledge the valuable services which have been rendered me by Mr. Owen, the house surgeon, whose unvaried kind¬ ness, diligent attention to the duties of his office, and high professional skill, have materially aided me in the task of organizing and conducting a new Asylum. Thomas Eccleston, Surgeon-Superintendent, Kainiiill, near Prescot, January 6, 1852.
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