Fourth report of the Somerset County Asylum, for insane paupers : from 1st January to the end of the year 1851.

  • Tone Vale (Hospital : Cotford, England)
Date:
1852
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Credit: Fourth report of the Somerset County Asylum, for insane paupers : from 1st January to the end of the year 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    patients are detained from that medical treatment which has been provided for them by the legislature, until their mental derangement has too far progressed, and their bodily health at the same time has been greatly impaired by the restraint under which they have been improperly kept at home. Your com¬ mittee would respectfully urge upon their brother magistrates, and especially on those who are Chair¬ men of Boards of Guardians, to recommend immediate attention to cases of insanity within their districts, as the probable means of effecting a saving of expence to the parishes, and of sparing the patients much prolonged suffering. The females already exceed the number contemplated in the first arrangement of the building; they have however been accommodated, and an additional number may be received without crowding the wards, or placing more in the rooms, than the law regulating these institutions sanctions. There are several patients in the asylum from the Borough of Bath, and it is desirable that some county magistrates connected with that City should be appointed visitors, and two will be proposed to succeed two now retiring from the Committee. Wells, January 6th, 1852. C. A. MOODY. F. H. DICKINSON. ROBERT CLERK. P. MILES. J. T. SCOBELL. J. M. CARROW. J. HIPPISLEY. RALPH NEVILLE. W. H. M. COLSTON. H. W. BARNARD.