Leprosy in British Guiana : an account of West Indian leprosy / by John D. Hillis ; illustrated with twenty lithographic plates, coloured and plain, from original drawings and photographs of patients at the asylum, and several engravings from camera-lucida drawings, by E. Noble Smith, of pathological specimens, mounted and prepared, and explanatory remarks, by P.S. Abraham.

  • Hillis, John D.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Leprosy in British Guiana : an account of West Indian leprosy / by John D. Hillis ; illustrated with twenty lithographic plates, coloured and plain, from original drawings and photographs of patients at the asylum, and several engravings from camera-lucida drawings, by E. Noble Smith, of pathological specimens, mounted and prepared, and explanatory remarks, by P.S. Abraham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    direct. A Work Book shall be kept by the Superintendent, in which the names of the inmates so engaged, the kind of work done by them, and their general con- duct when employed, shall be regularly kept, to be submitted to the Visiting Commissioner or other Official Visitor on each visit. Inmates refusino- or neaiectin- o o o to perform such work as they are ordered to perform will subject themselves thereby to the punishments named in Rule 45. 41. The daily arrangements shall be as follows:— At 7 A.M.—Coffee and bread. From 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.—Work or occupation. Schools for boys or girls. At 11 A.M.—Breakfast. From noon to 3 a.m.—Work or occupation. School for boys or girls^ and for those adults who choose to attend At 4 p.m.—Dinner. 42. The issue of tobacco, wine, beer, and spirituous liquors, or opium, shall be determined by the Medical Officer alone, from time to time, and no order shall be in force for more than one week. No such articles are to be issued except under the orders of the Medical Officer; and the use of such articles, however obtained, is strictly prohibited without his previous permission and sanction. 43. The Male inmates are forbidden to enter at any time the Wards or Yard of the Female inmates ; and Female inmates are forbidden to enter at any time the rooms of the Male inmates. Every breach of this Rule will be punished according to these Rules. 44. No inmates are ever to leave the grounds of the Asylum without the written permission of the Superintendent. 45. Every inmate who refuses or neglects to perform the duty or work assigned to him or her, or who is guilty of misconduct, or of any infraction of these Rules, shall, for each off'ence, be subject to be deprived of tobacco, wine, beer, spirits, or opium for any time not exceeding six months, on the order of the Medical Officer, or of the Superintendent. 46. Disorderly inmates shall, for the maintenance of quiet, be confined in a separate room, and receive only bread and water, or such other diet as the Medical Officer may direct. 47. Any inmate of the Asylum found outside the fences of the Asylum, not having been lawfully discharged therefrom, or having a written permission from the Superintendent to be absent from the Asylum, shall be arrested by any Police Constable, and conveyed as early as may be practicable to the Asylum. 48. The Dietary of each Asylum will be regulated from time to time by special orders ; and no alterations, except in the case of sick patients, as provided for by Rule 8, shall be made in the Dietary without the consent of the Government Secretary. Published this Fourteenth day of October, 1876. By Command, William A. G. Young, Government Secretary. The above were subsequently altei-ed by makiug the Surgeon the Superintendent, aud responsible for the entire management of the Asylum.—/. Z*. K.