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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    inquiry as to tlie best material to be used lias engaged tlie attention of your Committee. It was from tbe first the opinion of the Committee that wood is the best material, but, in deference to the opinion expressed by the Court, on the last County Day, visits were made by some of the members to Bethlehem and St. Luke’s Hospitals, and the Essex Asylum at Brentwood, and inquiries were made at the Cambridge and other Asylums. The result shows that wooden floors have been substituted at the three first-named Institutions for those of slate, stone, and tiles, while the more recently-erected Asylums have adopted wood as the best material. Measures have, therefore, been taken for executing the work at this Asylum in wood. Your Committee have met weekly at the Asylum, and visits have been made by individual members at many other times, and they are, upon the whole, satisfied with the gene¬ ral management. The supply of provisions has been ample and of good quality, and the stores have been judiciously selected. An interchange of Patients between this and the Hanwell Asylum took place early in the summer; 24 Male and 40 Female Patients belonging to parishes in the Western Divi¬ sion of the County were removed to Hanwell, in exchange for the like number from that Asylum of Patients belonging to Eastern parishes: an arrangement made with a view to the convenience of the Parish Officers and the friends of the Patients. No Patient who expressed any repugnance to the removal was transferred ; and in one or two cases, upon such a. feeling being shown after removal, the Patient was received back, and another sent.