[Copy of regulations for the management of an asylum for the relief of persons under mental derangement].

  • Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1810]
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Credit: [Copy of regulations for the management of an asylum for the relief of persons under mental derangement]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    1 proceed to state another circumstance in the design, but by no means peculiar to it, which adds some degree of real, and a great deal of apparent, magnitude to the building. The advantages to the patients in point of comfort, and what is still more important, in point of cure, which are ob- tained by the adoption of the single gallery, in preference to the more common mode of having rooms on both sides of it, are so well known to the Committee, that it might seem almost superfluous to state them. Being lighted from windows ranged along one side, as well as from the end, instead of one end only, the single gallery is much more airy and cheerful, and therefore better calculated for a place of exercise and recreation to the patients, during bad weather. Having only one row of bed-rooms, it will also be much less noisy, than w'hen there are contiguous and opposite rooms; and the Com- mittee must be aware, how essentially the recovery of the patient will depend on his being allowed the enjoyment of quiet rest. It may farther be noticed, that this method is much more conducive to free ventilation. Could I have entertained any doubts of the propriety of constructing the corridores in this manner, they would have been entirely removed by the high authority of Dr. Ferriar, and by the 1 opinion of other medical men, and experienced