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?]
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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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    47. He shall, on the death of a Patient, report the same to the Coroner, and to the next Bethlem Sub-Committee, specifying the time during which such Patient had been in the Hospital, and the apparent cause of death. 48. He shall direct post-mortem examinations to he made, when practicable, in cases that appear likely to afford information as to the nature, causes, or effects of insanity or where the cause of death is doubtful. 49. He shall take care, when any violent or sudden death shall occur, that immediate notice thereof he sent to the Treasurer and to the friends of the Patient; and in every case of suicide, the Attendant who had the care of the Patient shall he suspended until the next meeting of the Bethlem Sub-Committee. 50. He shall take care that the friends of Patients dangerously ill he invited to visit them without delay, and to remain with them, as far as may be practicable, during the continuance of such illness. 51. He shall report to the Bethlem Sub-Com¬ mittee, at every meeting, the important circum¬ stances that have occurred in the Hospital since the preceding meeting, noticing the name of every Patient fit to be discharged, or likely to be benefited by being allowed to be absent on trial; the number