Report on lunatic asylums / by Fredc. Norton Manning.

  • Manning, Frederick Norton, 1839-1903.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Report on lunatic asylums / by Fredc. Norton Manning. 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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    '''^ IKTBODUCTIOH. Of all these institutiotis, reports more or less comprehensive have been drawn up and such points in the construction and organization noted, as might be useful in remodel- ling the asylums of the Colony, and so fulfilling the main object of the commission Copies of plans more or less elaborate were obtained of the— New vSurrey Asylum Brookwood, V Sussex County do Hayward's Heath, Middlesex do. do Colney Hatch, Cheshire do. do Macclesfield, Lancashire do. do Prestwich, W Essex do. do Brentv,-ood, Perth District do Murthlv, v/ St. Anne's do, Paris, v/* Ville Evrard do Near Paris, Evreux do Evreux, \/^ Illenau do Baden, Hamburg do Prussia, Gottingen do do., Osnabriick do do., l>ankfort do do., yX^Cxuislain's do Ghent, y/ Mcerenbcrg do Haarlem,— and most of the American Institutions which were visited, and also of the new Asylum at Auckland, New Zealand. It is a matter of great regret, that some skilful arcliltect, or some one at least educated as such, was not associated in the Commission, to note the many details which: can be judged of only by an architect, by process of actual inspection. In- lunatic asylums, as iu hospitals, the association of the pliysician and architect is ver^'v requisite; but in the absence of such association, it can only be hoped that this reporti will not prove an impracticable set of theories from a medical man's point of view, as lias been predicted by an architect of eminence; oi- rival the but too stubborn facts in brick and mortar, which architects, when working alone, have in many cases erected,! even of late years, as hospitals for the insane. The papers and reports which have been collected, include— The Lunacy Statutes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, complete ; The Lunacy Statutes of New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts; The Lunacy Statutes of Prance ; A complete set of Eeports of the Scotch Lunacy Commissioners ; the Massa- chusetts Board of State Charities ; the Canadian Inspectors of Asylums and Prisons; and an almost complete set of Eeports of the English Lunacy Commissioners; The more recent Eeports of the Irisli Inspectors of Lunatics ; the Be]<^ian Lunacy Commissioners; and the New York Charity Commissioners;