The twentieth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1871 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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[1871]
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Credit: The twentieth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1871 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Committee have been satisfied that improvements were necessary, or that any additional sources of occupation, amusement, or comfort for the Patients, within reasonable bounds, were required, they have promptly supplied the want. The Patients have again been very profitably engaged, with the co-operation of the Attendants, in making up clothing and bedding for the new Imbecile Asylums at Leavesden and Caterham—the proceeds of their work for the year 1870 amount to £878 13s. 2d., two-thirds of which may be estimated as profit to the Asylum. Added to which, so much advantage has been found in promoting full em¬ ployment amongst the female Patients, that the Committee are very desirous of obtaining further work of a similar kind. The Committee have, out of the above profit, dis¬ tributed a sum of £70 amongst the Nurses and others who were specially engaged in teaching and encouraging the Patients to do this work. The health of the Patients has continued to be good, and they have been free from any epidemic. As the small¬ pox has recently existed to an alarming extent in many parts of the County, the Committee felt it necessary to take precautions to isolate, and in some cases to vaccinate Patients coming from any of the Districts in which this disease was found to be prevalent; but they trust the measures taken to arrest the spread of the disease by the Authorities, may be successful in stopping this formidable scourge. The casualties which have occurred among the Patients have not been numerous, and in one instance only have they resulted in death. In this case an invalid Patient