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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    thus given, although comparatively quiet after the fit has passed off. . The usual symptoms of the coming on of a fit having shown themselves, he had been withdrawn from work in the field, as a measure of precaution on the part of the Attendants, and had been detained for several days in the Ward. The symptoms on account of which Roberts had been kept within the Asylum having, apparently, passed away, and both the Attendant in the Ward and the Garden Attendant, under whose care the Patients work in the open field, being of opinion that he had entirely recovered the condition in which he was usually permitted to go out to work, he had that very morning been taken out with the other Patients, and unfortunately very soon afterwards struck the Patient Brady, against whom he does not appear to have had any animosity, in the manner, [and with the conse¬ quences, above stated. The Committee that very day fully investigated the case, and were clearly of opinion that no blame was fairly attributable to the Attendants for want of care. Roberts had not been seen that morning by Dr. Begley, the Resident Medical Superintendant on the Male side, but was seen and examined by him immediately after the accident. The result was that Dr. Begley gave it as his opinion, that there was nothing in the Patient’s condition at that time which would have led him to think that the man was in an unfit state to go out to work. Upon the whole, the Committee could only come to the conclusion, that, deeply as the accident was to be lamented, it was still one of those things which no care will render entirely inevitable.