The thirty-seventh annual report of the visitors of the Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum : for the year ending December 31, 1855.

  • Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum.
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[1856]
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Credit: The thirty-seventh annual report of the visitors of the Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum : for the year ending December 31, 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    still great would be the responsibility and severe the blame due to any one, who having witnessed the effects of the present humane system, should resort, even in one single case, to the former debasing and unnecessary use of cruelty and restraint. Since the last Report was published several Changes changes have taken place in this Establishment; Establishment the selection of Mr. Wilkes as a Commissioner in Lunacy, an elevation at once so judicious, and so well calculated to advance the interests of humanity, has led to my appointment as your Superintendent here, and I am well aware that it is only by carrying out the system so ably adopted by my predecessor, and one in which I so fully coincide, that I can hope to continue to merit your confidence, and successfully to promote the interests of this noble Establishment. MARK NOBLE BOWER, M.l). February, 1856.