Rules of the Lincoln Lunatic Hospital : revised 1876.

  • Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (Lincoln, England)
Date:
1876
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rules of the Lincoln Lunatic Hospital : revised 1876. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    >ec ■:h 6. The Resident Medical Superintendent, Secretary, and Matron, shall he appointed and may he removed by a General Board ; and, excepting for incapacity or misbehaviour on the part of any such officers, three months’ notice in writing on either side shall be required to terminate the engagement. 7. The Surveyor, Attendants, Servants, Porters, and other persons employed, shall be appointed and may be removed by the Ordinary Board. A / 8k All the Officers^ Attendants^ and Servants resident in the mmse shall be unmarried, and then from^theBurthen jii (h.f\A °f childrenatrd care of a family. 9. The Resident Medical Superintendent shall be a duly registered general practitioner, holding at least two qualifica- y, poj tions, one in Surgery and one in Medicine. 10. The Medical Superintendent and the Matron shall not be above the age of forty years at the time of their appointment. 11. Three weeks’ notice of the Election of a Resident Medical Superintendent, Secretary, or Matron, shall be given by public advertisement; and the names of the Candidates shall be declared, in writing, previous to the day of Election, as the Board may direct. The Election shall be decided by the majority of the Governors present at the General Board, but Ladies may depute a Governor to vote in such case, by written proxy, for the special occasion. 12. The Ordinary Board may suspend, and may remove from the premises, any salaried Officer of the establishment, for misbehaviour or incompetency. 13. When a vacancy or suspension takes place in any salaried Office which is in the appointment of the General Board, the Ordinary Board may provisionally appoint a substitute; but the Ordinary Board shall forthwith summon a Special General Board, to proceed further therein, unless the Quarterly General Board shall fall not later than one