Reports for the year 1854 / Saint Luke's Hospital for Lunatics.

  • Saint Luke's Hospital for Lunatics (London, England)
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Reports for the year 1854 / Saint Luke's Hospital for Lunatics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    having been adopted at a Court of Governors holden on the 25th of May, 1854, it is become necessary so to revise and alter the existing Rules and Orders for the government of the Hospital, as to render them, so far as possible,—in accordance with the spirit and intention of the Resolutions of the Court,— in unison with the views of the Commissioners in Lmiacy, and in conformity with the requirements of the existing Acts of Parliament relating to the care and treatment of Lunatics. A Sub-Committee has accordingly been appointed for tliis purpose, and a new code of Rules and Orders is at present under their consideration, which, when completed, will be sub¬ mitted to the Court of Governors for their approval, or other¬ wise, as the Court may deem expedient. In connection with the alterations wRich have been made during the past year in regard to the Medical Departments of the Hospital, your Committee Report;— That in furtherance of the principles laid down by the Court on the 14th February, 1753, and the 15th February, 1843,— It was resolved, at the last Annual General Court, that the Physicians should in future be empowered each to take six pupils instead of three, as heretofore, into the Hospital, and that they should be further allowed to select Clinical Clerks from pupils of good moral character, who shall have passed their examinations at the Colleges of Physicians or Surgeons, or at the Apothecaries’ Hall, but with the proviso that such Clinical Clerks should not be permitted to enter the galleries unless accompanied by one of the Physicians or by one of the Attend¬ ants. During the past year the Hospital has been visited by the Commissioners in Lunacy, pursuant to the 61st