The twenty-third annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1874 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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[1874]
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Credit: The twenty-third annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1874 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    b TO HER MAJESTY’S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE for the COUNTY of MIDDLESEX, in General Quarter Session Assembled. The TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch. The Committee commenced their Twenty-Second Report last year by saying- that the history of the Asylum during the year then passed, like that of the one preceding, had been very uneventful, and would need but a short Report. Similar words are applicable to the present Report, and much which was then said might be repeated in nearly identical words. This Report will, therefore, in the first instance, summarize very shortly the matters requiring report according to the provisions of the Lunatic Asylums’ Acts, and will conclude with the details of such special matters which the Committee think it right to bring under the notice of the Court. The Asylum is throughout in good repair, numerous im¬ provements in warming, ventilation, &c., have been made in addition to what had already been done. The health of the Patients has continued good, with complete freedom from epidemics. The conduct of the officers, attendants, and servants has, with very little exception, been good;