Rules and orders, together with the duties of the several officers and servants / approved by [G. Grey,] Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 9th May, 1866.

  • Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Date:
[1866?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rules and orders, together with the duties of the several officers and servants / approved by [G. Grey,] Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 9th May, 1866. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    35. He shall be under the control of the Presi¬ dent, the Treasurer, the Committee, and the Bethlem Sub-Committee; and shall himself have control over all other Officers, Attendants, and Servants, in everything pertaining to the maintenance, care, occupation, and amusement of the Patients. He shall have authority to recommend the hiring and discharge of all Attendants and Servants, and may suspend any of them for misconduct, entering a report of such suspension, with the reason thereof, in a Journal, for the information of the next Bethlem Sub-Committee, and giving immediate notice thereof to the Treasurer. 36. He shall be responsible for the management and condition of the Hospital, and shall superintend the whole of the medical and moral treatment of the Patients, and the general arrangements of the Establishment, subject to the Buies of the Hospital and the directions of the Governors. 37. He shall classify the Patients, and shall regulate and determine the diet of those who are sick and infirm, in such manner as he shall see fit, taking care that the particulars of such sick or extra diet he entered in a Book to he kept for that purpose. He shall also from time to time examine the provisions furnished for the use of the Patients, and report to the Bethlem Sub-Committee whenever he shall consider the quality of any part of it to be unsatisfactory.