The twenty-fifth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1870 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1870
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Credit: The twenty-fifth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1870 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is deserving’ of the serious attention of the Court; the Patient was 80 years of age, and died within a fortnight. The correspondence which took place between the Committee and the Parochial Authorities will be found in the Appendix No. 2. The Court will find in that Correspondence reference to a case of a different kind which is not omitted from the Correspondence, because it will show to the Court in what state and condition Patients are not unfrequently brought to the Asylum. There are many other cases which are sent to the Asylum, Male and Female, of ages from 66 to 85, which when brought, on entering the Asylum, appeared to the Committee and its Medical Officers to be such as might well have been cared for in the Workhouses. They are brought to the Asylum as recent cases, and fill up the beds which ought to be reserved for cases really recent, that is, for Patients requiring care in an Asylum which cannot be given in a Workhouse. It is true, no doubt, that they are more carefully treated under the constant superintending attention of the Medical Officers of the Asylum, and of Attendants or Nurses sufficiently trained and in sufficient numbers, but it is an evil never, theless (because it excludes the other and more pressing cases) from which the Committee trusts it will be relieved as soon as the District Asylums are completed, and are opened to receive this class of Patients from the Work- houses, and as the Committee anticipate, very considerable numbers from this Asylum. One case occurred in the course of the year which has