A history of the York Lunatic Asylum : with an appendix, containing minutes of the evidence on the cases of abuse lately inquired into by a committee, &c. ; addressed to William Wilberforce.

  • Gray, Jona. (Jonathan), 1779-1837.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A history of the York Lunatic Asylum : with an appendix, containing minutes of the evidence on the cases of abuse lately inquired into by a committee, &c. ; addressed to William Wilberforce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    of the house. As much depends upon the care and abili- ties ol the House Apothecary, we recommend to the Com- mittee to procure a person for that office, who has been brought up at Bedlam, or St. Luke's. In April, 1777, an advertisement appeared in the news- papers, stating, that the expense of the main building, and of the necessary offices, had so far exceeded the estimate, that they could not be finished and furnished in the plainest manner, nor could the bills already brought in be fully discharged, without an additional sum of money. In the same month, an Earnest Application was ad- dressed to the public, concerning the state of the Asylum, soliciting donations. It is here stated, That no attend- ing Physician or Surgeon will receive either fee or reward, as long as the Hospital continues to receive only paupers, or persons in low and indigent circumstances, agreeable to the original design of the charity On the 20th of September, 1777, apartments were open- ed for the reception of ten patients, at 8s. per week each ; and the following salutary rule was adopted at the meet- ing that day :— No keeper or hired servant of the Asy- lum to accept any money or other gratuity for his or her own use, on the behalf of any patient, on any pretence Whatever. On the 21st of September, (the day after the Asylum was opened,) a meeting of the Committee took place ;—• present—Dr. Hunter, Mr. Johnson, Re . Mr. Preston two Messrs. Jubb, and Dr. Wallis. On this occasion, the following n solution was pass d :— It is the sense of this Committee, that it is most pro- per to have one Physician only, for the Asylum, and Dr. Hunter being desired to attend as such, he consented thereto. In this resolution, as in a former one, there are some