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.
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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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    enquiry has lately been made by the Commissioners in Lunacy into the cases of Criminal Lunatics in this Asylum, and the Committee will rejoice to find, that all such cases are to be removed to the more appropriate care of an Asylum in which Criminal Lunatics only are received. The Court will pro- bablv consider whether it will not be advisable to recommend c' to the Visiting Justices of the Prisons of the County, when Criminals are found to be Lunatic, that, in certifying such Lunacy to the Secretary of State, they should recommend his or her removal to the Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, on Bagshot Heath, and not, as at present, to one or other of the County Asylums, The Commissioners in Lunacy made their annual Visitation in the month of December last. A Copy of the Beport made by them on that occasion, will be found in the Appendix, together with a Copy of the Minute of the Committee there¬ upon. The Committee have had to regret the loss during the year of a highly respected colleague—the late Dr. Burnes—who died in the month of September last, and in addition to the vacancy thus created, the following five Members of the Committee who retire to complete the number of vacancies required under the Order of the Court, are—Mr. Halsey, Air. Halswell, Mr. Aliller, Air. Baxter, and Mr. Lvall. A. Y. SPEARMAN, Chairman. Sessions House, Clerhenwell, Jan. 15, 1863.