A letter to the Secretary of State for the Home Department : upon the unjust and pettifogging conduct of the Metropolitan Commissioners on Lunacy, in the case of a gentleman, lately under their surveillance / by John Perceval.

  • Perceval, John, active 1840-1860.
Date:
1844
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Credit: A letter to the Secretary of State for the Home Department : upon the unjust and pettifogging conduct of the Metropolitan Commissioners on Lunacy, in the case of a gentleman, lately under their surveillance / by John Perceval. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT. Kensington, June, 1844. Sir, I have the honour of laying before you the following pages, containing a letter which I ad- dressed to the Editor of the Times, in the year 1842, respecting the conduct of the Board of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, with a correspondence which I have had with that Board, respecting the case of a gentleman lately under their surveillance, coupled with further observa- tions on that case, illustrative of the accusations I made in that letter. It is with much regret that I call your attention to these charges against, and reflections upon the conduct of a body of men, many of whom devote their time and attention, without any remuneration, to the discharge of duties of a difficult and painful nature, and are actuated solely by motives of dis- interested, however imperfectly informed, bene- volence in so doing. But the interests of justice