State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (instituted November 4, 1819) : [the eleventh report].

  • Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (Lincoln, England)
Date:
1835
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Credit: State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (instituted November 4, 1819) : [the eleventh report]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOARDS, An Ordinary Board of the Governors is held Weekly at the Asylum, on Monday at One o’clock, A General Board of the Governors is held Quarterly on the second Wed¬ nesday of January, April, July, and October, at Twelve o’clock. ADMISSION OF PATIENTS, The Ordinary Board regulates the Admission of Patients.—The Forms of Admission, with other necessary information, are immediately supplied to applicants, by the Secretary or House-Surgeon, The House-Surgeon, during the intervals of the Boards, may on emer¬ gency, provisionally admit Patients who have complied with the necessary Forms, subject to the opinion of the Physician. Where any difficulty occurs in conducting Patients to the Asylum, the Physician may send a confidential Attendant and needful Apparatus for the purpose; for which no charge is made beyond the expenses incurred. The following are the usual terms for Board, Lodging, Attendance, and Medical Treatment. 1st Rank..per week 1 1 0 2nd Rank. 0 15 0 3rd Rank, Males. 0 9 0 -Females.. 0 8 0 Special Contracts maybe made for extra Attendants and Diet. A “ Deposit of six weeks’ payment,” and a “ Payment in advance up to the next Quarter Day,” are required with each Patient on admission.—The Friends may advance for any additional Quarters, if more convenient.—• The Quarter Days fall on the first day of January, April, July, and October, respectively.—On the removal or death of any Patient, the amount due to the institution is deducted, and the surplus returned. OFFICIAL VISITING. A “Governors’ Memorandum Book” shall lie upon the Board Room Table, for their remarks at such times as they shall think proper to visit the Asylum, At each Quarterly General Board the Governors present or some of them, shall be requested to inspect the Asylum, and see every Room and Patient, and report forthwith to the Board. At each Ordinary Board, one of the Governors shall be appointed Visitor for the week next succeeding, to visit the Asylum daily if con¬ venient, to see every Patient once at least in the week, to make any enquiries which may seem fit, and to enter his observations in the “Weekly Visitor’s Book;” and no person whatsoever shall interfere to prevent the most minute examination of the Establishment, OCCASIONAL VISITING. Persons wishing to visit the Asylum, may be personally introduced by one of the Physicians, Surgeons, or Governors, or by the written order of a Governor ; and the House-Surgeon may admit any respectable non-resident of Lincoln to see the establishment, without a special order. VISITS OF FRIENDS. The Rules affecting the admission of the Patients friends are appended to each Quarterly Account. Key worth, Printer, Lincoln.