Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables, ... / by Robert Gardiner Hill.

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[1839]
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Credit: Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables, ... / by Robert Gardiner Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS. A Lecture, &c. Appendix (A.)—Proceedings of the Lincoln Lunatic Asy- lum, relative to Classification, Inspection, and other matters bearing upon the subject of Restraint. Appendix (B.)—A Tabular view of the several instances of Restraint, Coercion, and Seclusion used in the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, from March 16th, 1829, to March 22nd, 1837. Appendix (C.)—Summary of the Preceding Tables. Appendix (D.)—Number of Suicides and their apparent Connexion with Restraints. Appendix (E.)—Miscellaneous Statistical Tables of the Lin- coln Lunatic Asylum. Appendix (F.)—Table, shewing the Probabilities of Life in the Kingdom of Sweden, according to the average of seven different enumerations in 1757, 1760, 1763, 1766, 1769, 1772 and 1775. Appendix (Gr.)—Rate of Mortality at different Ages in the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, from enumerations in 1832,