The twenty-second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The twenty-second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Committee feels it to be its duty to call the attention of the Court to cases such as these. The correspondence which took place between the Com¬ mittee and the Parochial authorities upon this subject will be found in the Appendix. The case of an infectious disease above referred to, was that of a Laundry Maid. She became ill at the latter end of December, when it appeared doubtful whether the disease was not Small-pox. It developed itself, however, into Typhoid Fever, and notwithstanding every care on the part of the Medical Officers and Nurses, unfortunately terminated fatally on 3rd January. While adverting to this case the Committee feels it desirable to bring under the notice of the Court, that owing now to the very large numbers of Patients in the Asylum, the Committee has no longer any ward sufficiently isolated from the main body of the building which could be made available for Patients attacked by infectious disease, and whose continuance in the ordinary wards might be the cause of great danger to the other Patients. Tire only place to which such Patients can now be removed is to a large room over the entrance gate, which, although quite isolated from the Asylum itself, is in im¬ mediate contiguity to the Porter’s Lodge and the Clerks’ Offices, and is, besides, at an inconvenient distance from the Medical Officers, Those who superintend and manage the Asylum have hitherto been very little subjected to anxiety on this account ; but it is very desirable that better provision should be made against the future. The Committee has it, therefore, in contemplation to bring this subject under the early consideration of the Court, in