The reports of the Visiting Justices of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, from the Easter Sessions 1839, to the Michaelmas Sessions, 1842 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1842
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Credit: The reports of the Visiting Justices of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, from the Easter Sessions 1839, to the Michaelmas Sessions, 1842 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Steward, and your Committee are able, as far as their present experience will permit, to report favourably of the change. In the latter end of the autumn, also, your Committee re¬ modelled the General Regulations for the Government of all the Officers of the Establishment, and made considerable changes in the duties of some of them ; and they have also made some progress in the revision of the system of book¬ keeping, and trust they shall be able to report at the Midsummer Sessions a great improvement in this department of the Estab¬ lishment. Your Committee have also in view an improved system of medical and statistical arrangement and classification, and for this purpose have been in communication with other similar establishments; but, in consequence of the immediate pressure of more important duties, your Committee are not at present prepared to enter further into detail on this head. Your Committee wish, before quitting this subject, to correct an error which appeared on their last Report, as to the amount of the contract price for Beef for the use of the Asylum in the December Quarter of 1838, the amount should have been stated to be 65. 2d. instead of Is. 9d., the latter being the contract price of the meat used at the Officers’ tables. Your Committee next call the attention of the Court to another branch of the Finances of the Asylum The Statute 9 Geo. 4, Cap. 40, is loosely worded, and considerable obscurity prevails as to the extent of the powers given to the Visiting Justices under the 33rd Section, of making orders upon the County Treasurer in respect (to use the words of the Act) “ of repairs and other expenses. As far as these powers extend