The eleventh annual report of the United Committee of Visitors : being the report for the year 1859 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements, etc / Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum.

  • Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1860?]
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Credit: The eleventh annual report of the United Committee of Visitors : being the report for the year 1859 with list of visitors and officers of the institution, medical and financial statements, etc / Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    io short space of time, but we have recommended the Superin¬ tendent to require regular returns of these cases, in order that they may be registered equally with cases of longer duration, and that every instance of black eyes (of which there are several on the women’s side) should be entered also. We have on these days seen the patients, and have in¬ spected their rooms and galleries, which are generally clean. The patients on the male side, with two or three exceptions, were tranquil. There were exceptions on the female side, where several females were in a state of much excitement. We think it very desirable that patients of this character should have as much out of door exercise as their health will allow: and that the females generally should take exer¬ cise in the afternoon or evening as well as in the morning. It is most desirable that the field adjoining the female side of the Asylum should be obtained for the patients. At present the female airing ground forms the boundary of the property, and therefore, it is not easy to afford the means of extended exercise to the patients of that sex; besides which, it is important that no road or building should be allowed to approach very near this portion of the Asylum. In the meantime, the wall which runs at the ends of the women’s airing court should be removed, and replaced by a low and light fence, which would admit of their obtaining a view of the distant country. This airing court would be improved by trees and seats, and all the airing court walls would look more cheerful if planted with creeping shrubs and flowers. The women’s rooms and galleries want more seats and furniture, which should be of a somewhat lighter description. If there were a better carpenter and joiner shop (the present one being very small and insufficient), probably such addi¬ tion to the furniture would be made by the labour of the patients. We recommend that the padded rooms should 'be