The fifteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1860 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1860
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Credit: The fifteenth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1860 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by personal inspection of every part of the Building, and by seeing every patient on such occasions, which visits are made at entirely unexpected times, have always shown, in the clearest manner, that the attention bestowed upon cleanli¬ ness, ventilation, and proper care of the Patients, is continuous and unremitting as a general rule. The Asylum, which had been closed against the receiving of additional Patients, in August, 1858, in consequence of the then state of the works, was partially reopened in the beginning of 1859. In the course of the year, 81 Males, and 114 Females, were admitted; 20 Males and 22 Females were discharged cured, and 4 Males and 1 Female relieved; 2 Males not improved.* During the same period, 7 Males and 13 Females were removed to other Asylums, of whom 2 Males and 3 Females were relieved, and 5 Males and 10 Fe¬ males not improved. There have died, 34 Males and 29 Females, and on 31st December, 1559, there continued in the Asylum 430 Male, and 637 Female Patients, being 14 Males and 49 Females more than on 31st December, 1858. The Committee lament to report that a sad accident occurred in the month of February, 1859. John Brady, a Patient at work in the lower field within the walls of the Asylum, was suddenly, and without provocation on his part, struck violently several blows on the side of the head with a trenching fork by another Patient named Roberts, also , at work, and died almost immediately after he was carried into the Asylum, notwithstanding every care on the part of the Resident Medical Officer. Roberts is a man subject to epileptic fits, and is generally very violent when such fits are coming on, of which notice is