The tenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1861 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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1861
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Credit: The tenth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1861 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before the Committee of Visitors of the Colney Hatch Asylum, at their first meeting, held yesterday; and I am directed to say that the Committee greatly regret that the letter of the 16th was not before them on the 15th, the day of their last meeting, when they finally agreed to their Annual Report, to be presented to the Court of Quarter Session on the 17th ; for, if it had been received, they would very readily have complied, as a matter of course, with your request to add it to the rest of the correspondence on the case of Swift, which was appended to their Report. The Report of the Committee, as made on the 15th instant, having been presented to the Court on the 17th, and received, and ordered by the Court to be printed, the Committee of Visitors need scarcely say that they have no power, of them¬ selves, now to add to it, nor can they omit from it my letter addressed to you, by their directions, on the 12th December last, however much they regret their inability. But they desire me to say that they will, at the next meeting of the Court, on the 21st February, submit a Special Report, with the further correspondence, and request the Court to cause the same to be printed, and circulated with as much publicity as shall be given to the Annual Report. The Committee desire me to say, further, that they intend, on a future day, to forward to you a reply to some of the remarks contained in your letter of the 16th instant. I am, Sir, Your very obedient servant, JOHN S. SKAIFE, Clerk to the Visitors. John Forster, Esq., Secretary to the Commissioners in Lunacy.