The report of the Committee of Visitors and of the medical superintendent of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1867.

  • West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The report of the Committee of Visitors and of the medical superintendent of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1867. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Resignation of Mrs. Paige. Assistant Medical Officers. Conduct of Officers and Servants. Meetings, We believe this system to be more effica¬ cious in securing the end in view than that proposed by the Commissioners, as many Patients will confide to the Officers under such circumstances that which they would not state if brought formally before the Committee. The declarations so far taken have been uniformly favourable. Mrs. ZiLLAH Paige, who was appointed Matron of the Asylum on the 23rd of September, 1853, finding that failing health interfered with the due discharge of her duties, placed her resignation in the hands of the Committee in March last, and was recommended to the Sessions for a retiring pension. The Committee considering the altered circumstances of the Institution, resolved not to continue the Office of Matron, but to appoint instead a Chief Female Officer in a more subor¬ dinate position, at a reduced salary, giving her also the assistance of a Head Nurse, The two Assistant Medical Officers having during the present year, sent in their resignation with a view to professional promotion ; Dr. Samuel Mitchell, and Mr. George Thompson, Surgeon, have been appointed in their stead. With one exception the conduct of the Officers and Servants of the Institution has been satisfactoiy: in the case we refer to, that of a subordinate Officer, it is hoped that the admonition substituted for discharge, will have a beneficial effect, and act at once as encou¬ ragement and warning, J. G. SMYTH, ©^airman.