The twenty-fourth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1869 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1869
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Credit: The twenty-fourth report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1869 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To HER MAJESTY’S JUSTICES of the PEACE for the County of Middlesex in General Quarter Session Assembled. The TWENTY-FOURTH REPORT of the Com¬ mittee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the County of Middlesex, situate at Hanwell, It is with no small degree of satisfaction that the Committee of Visitors finds itself able at the termination of another year again to congratulate the Court upon the state and condition of the Asylum, and the health of the Patients which has prevailed throughout the year and exists at its close. It is the duty of the Committee to point out to the Court that this satisfactory state of the Asylum and of the Patients has been, and is, due to the watchful superintendence of the Medical Officers, and of all those who act under their directions in the care and management of the Patients. In like manner the same testimony is due to the Chaplain, the Matron, and those who are placed under her superin¬ tendence and to assist her in conducting the duties, to the Engineer, the Storekeeper, and the Clerk of the Asylum, each in his respective sphere of duty. Some few Attendants and some few Nurses have been necessarily removed from the service. The cases have b 2