The public asylums of the province of Quebec / by Daniel Hack Tuke.

  • Tuke, Daniel Hack, 1827-1895.
Date:
1884
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Credit: The public asylums of the province of Quebec / by Daniel Hack Tuke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    REPRINTED FROM THE CANADA MEDICAL & SURGICAL JOURNAL. OCTOBER, 1884. THE OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. BY DANIEL HACK TDO]j..M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P., Lond., Editor Joui-nal of Mental Science ; formerly gi^^R^pV^dbat-^f the York Retreat. [Dr. D. Hack Tuke of London, the well-known alienist and author, visited Canada with the British Association. He inspected all the lunatic asylums in Ontario and Quebec. The reports of his visits to Longue Pointe and to Beauport he forwarded to the Hon. the Provincial Secretary. With his permission, we publish these, as they cannot fail to interest our readers.—Ed.] : LONGUE POINTE ASYLUM. On the 30th of August last I visited the lunatic asylum at Longue Pointe, seven miles from Montreal, called the Hospice des Alienes de St. Jean de JDieu. It was built by the Soeurs de Providence, and opened in 1876. The Province of Quebec contracts with them to maintain the lunatic poor* in on6 of the two parts of the Province into which it is divided ; the asylum at Beauport, near Quebec, providing similarly for the other dis- trict. Private patients are admitted. The building, which, surmounted by three cupolas, is a prominent object from the St. * At the rate of 100 dollars or £20 per aiuium per l;oad at Montreal and 130 dollars at Quebec—a very insufficient sum, it would scorn, for board, lodging and clothing. I understand that the money originally borrowed of the Provincial Government by the Montreal Asylum has been refunded, and that money has boon borrowotl from private quarters to assist m the erection of the additional buildings.