Report from the managers of the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1822 [i.e. 1821] [- for the year 1822, - for the year 1823].

  • Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1822-1824]
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Credit: Report from the managers of the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum, for the year 1822 [i.e. 1821] [- for the year 1822, - for the year 1823]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 unfortunate condition will allow. There are also at¬ tached to this Asylum gardens and airing grounds, with shaded walks, which may tend to promote both the health and happiness of unfortunate lunatics. This Asylum is placed in a very healthy situa¬ tion, about two miles from Edinburgh, with a full view of the Pentland Hills, the Frith of Forth, and other beautiful scenery. From the situation of the grounds, both for health and amusement, with which it is surrounded, and from the accom¬ modation afforded in the different buildings of which it consists, several intelligent visitors, after a careful inspection, have given it as their decided opinion, that there is not an Asylum in Europe in which an unfortunate individual, subjected to a state of Mental Derangement, has a better chance of re¬ covery, than in the Lunatic Asylum of Edinburgh. In that Asylum every proper attention is paid to due secrecy. For although, by an order from a Ma¬ nager, the building may be inspected by any visi¬ tor ; yet the strictest attention is bestowed, that the patients be kept, when necessary, in a state of the utmost privacy. And no visitor can see any patient but in a separate room, and by a special licence, from the Physician who has the care of the patient, and who certainly is the best judge whether his patient be in a condition to be visited or not. Although the sum obtained for building this Lunatic Asylum, by voluntary subscriptions, not only from the Inhabitants of Edinburgh, but from other parts of the British Empire, particularly from the