The eighteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1863 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1863
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Credit: The eighteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1863 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 ♦ 11 •—- Acting; on the advice of their Medical Officers, the Com- mittees of the two County Asylums have occasionally sanc¬ tioned exchanges of Patients from one to the other in cases in which change of scene might be considered, on medical grounds^ likely to prove beneficial to the Patients; and it may be worthy of consideration whether such exchanges might not beneficially be carried out more extensively. In addition to the regular meetings of the Committee and House Committee, the law requires, as the Court is aware, a special inspection of the whole of the Asylum and of its inmates every two months. These Inspections have been made accord¬ ingly, at unexpected times, and have shewn that the Asylum was always found on those occasions in a satisfactory condition. The Committee have pleasure in stating to the Court, that with some few exceptions among the Nurses and Attendants, the whole of the Officers and Servants have continued to perform the duties devolving upon them attentively and faithfully. The Committee take this opportunity of calling the attention of the Court to the Lunacy Law Amendment Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, which contains some provisions relating to Lunatics in Workhouses, of considerable importance. * It is well understood that in manv instances, Lunatic Patients who are suffering under recent attack, are kept in the Workhouse when they might be sent to the Asylum ; and it is certain that in many instances Chronic Patients might be safely removed from Asylums to Workhouses, if due and proper provision in every respect were made in such Workhouses. It is also true that if arrangements are made of a proper character in