The nineteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1870 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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[1870]
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Credit: The nineteenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1870 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In many instances each Patient has clean water, and where two or more use the same care is always taken in the selection of the persons, and due regard had to the state of the water after each immersion. A separate bath-house would cause much annoyance to the Patients (as seen now on the Female side of the Asylum) and entail great extra labour upon the Attendants. Whilst if made to apply to the Wards containing refractory and dirty Patients the evils would be enormous, I am, &c., (Signed) T. C. SHAW, M.D.