Medical report of the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen, for the year ending 31st December, 1860.

  • Royal Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Date:
1861
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Credit: Medical report of the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen, for the year ending 31st December, 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    regularity of A^Varrants and Registers, giving special I audiences to all malcontents desiring private interviews, j and making such, criticisms and remarks as suggested ! themselves. In addition to the many Records necessary I or required, a form was sent by the General Board of ! Lunacy for a Register of Callers to be established at the gate of the Asylum ; and which, being of a kind not likely to be acceptable to the class of Visitors at I such mixed Hospitals as the Aberdeen Asylum, was remonstrated against, and at once allowed to be with¬ drawn. Every accommodation for the visits of friends has of late years been made; and admission is given on j two days of the week. Visitors from the country are I admissible at other times j and Ratients, having sepa¬ rate sitting-rooms of their own, have greater facilities for frequent intercourse with their friends. These in¬ terviews, though under regulations, are not hampered by any unnecessary attendance; nor, although of a i sufficiently unrestricted kind, allowed to be made un¬ comfortable to either party. No visits take place unsanctioned by the Medical Superintendent; and re¬ fusals of access are made only in cases in which the visit is judged to be disagreeable to the Patient himself, hurtful to him if he is under treatment, or contrary to the wish of his relatives or guardians. EGBERT JAMIESON, M.D., MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT.