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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    but no ward during the day shall ever, under any circumstances, be left without at least one Attend¬ ant in actual charge of it. 197. The Attendants shall devote the whole of their time during the day to the Patients, and shall execute with care and diligence all the directions they shall from time to time receive respecting their treatment, medicine, food, dress, occupation, exercise, and amusement. 198. They shall, unless directed otherwise by the Resident Physician, bathe all Patients on admis¬ sion, in warm water, and shall carefully examine them, and any sore, bruise, or unusual appearance observed by them, shall be immediately reported to the Medical Officers. 199. They shall be responsible for the cleanliness and general state of their respective wards, and for the cleanliness, order, and regularity of the Patients under their care, and shall on no ac¬ count, strike, ill-use, irritate, or annoy any Patient; but, on the contrary, shall treat all under their charge with the utmost humanity, kindness, and forbearance. 200 They shall remove into a bed-room, or a padded room, every Patient becoming dangerous or annoying to others, and not to be soothed or con-