The twenty-first report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1866 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The twenty-first report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1866 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    good, but there are some very old and feeble cases, and of the whole number 85 are on the sick list. Of these 24 are in the Infirmary. The number of Deaths of Female Patients since the last visit in October has been 81, all from ordinary causes. Of 169 Women admitted within the same period, 100 are reported to have been in bad health, 13 of the cases being Paralytic, and 18 complicated with Epilepsy. The Women’s Wards were generally clean, and some of them have been improved, but the effect of many is still bare, and they are wanting in those small matters of domestic furniture and ornament which are now usually found in Asylums, and the supply of which tends so much to improve the habits of the inmates. - We strongly recommend that the principle adopted in No. 12 should be carried out in other Wards, and we suggest that Ward No. 5, in which the worst and most excitable cases are placed, should be the first to be so improved. Many of the single rooms in No. 5 Ward were offensive from defective ventilation, and one of these rooms is quite unfit for occupation, and should never be used, as it has no window, and is in fact a mere brick closet. We were sorry to find two beds made up wet in this Ward, but these were the only cases of this kind, the bedding generally being in the best order and of very good quality. We have made inquiry as to the present staff of Nurses and Servants in the Female Division, and we are informed