The report of the Committee of Visitors and Medical Superintendent of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Devon County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1862
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Credit: The report of the Committee of Visitors and Medical Superintendent of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    men’s side of the asylum by women patients is inconvenient and objectionable. The manner in which patients are brought to the asylum, and in which when recovered they are removed from it, is generally creditable to the judgment and kindness of the relieving officers, to whom for the most part this business is confided. In some few instances, however, an exception to this rule has been noticed, when a female patient has been brought without any female friend or attendant; in one instance a maniacal woman was brought forty miles by a coal porter hired for the job, and who had never seen her before ; she was violent during the journey, and the man had to use force, so that when admitted into the asylum she was a good deal bruised. The visitors of this asylum concur in the opinion of the Superintendent, that a nurse or female companion of some kind ought to be provided for all women being brought as patients to this asylum. JOHN CHARLES EUCKNILL, M.D.