Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables, ... / by Robert Gardiner Hill.

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[1839]
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Credit: Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables, ... / by Robert Gardiner Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Inspection. This propensity cannot be counter- acted by any other means, than the constant supervision of attendants by day, and a watch by night, aided by the remission of ignorant and cruel usages which no doubt have often driven the insane sufferer to seek in suicide the only means of escape. The disappearance of suicide under the system of Total Abolition has confirmed this opinion. By the annexed Tables it will be seen, that not one fatal ac- cident has occurred in this Asylum since the Total Abolition of Restraints. The Appendix (A,) abounds in curious and instructive matter, which will be found emi- nently useful in other Institutions. It contains the proceedings of the Boards and Officers for a course of years in carrying out the great principles of Construction, Classification, Pub- lic Inspection, Pervision, exoneration of the Attendants from domestic duties, and other matters which have directly or indirectly borne upon the final extinction of restraint. These memoranda are peculiarly valuable, as not being merely wild and exaggerated views of