Report, together with the minutes of evidence, and an appendix of papers / from the Committee Appointed to Consider of Provision Being Made for the Better Regulation of Madhouses in England (ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 11th July, 1815) ; each subject of evidence arranged under its distinct head by J. B. Sharpe, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee Appointed to Consider of Provision Being Made for the Better Regulation of Madhouses in England.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Report, together with the minutes of evidence, and an appendix of papers / from the Committee Appointed to Consider of Provision Being Made for the Better Regulation of Madhouses in England (ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 11th July, 1815) ; each subject of evidence arranged under its distinct head by J. B. Sharpe, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Accidental circumstances having placed me in a situation allowing much opportunity of observing the management of madhouses, and the treatment of insane persons; and considering the importance of the subject matter of this investigation, I was induced to believe the Public would derive some advantage from a more extended circulation of the Reports of the Committee on Madhouses, than the few copies printed by order of the House of Commons could possibly furnish. With this view the present edition was undertaken, and is now presented to the Public. I shall not presume to offer any observations upon the facts contained in the reports; the nature of the evidence being such as to carry a full conviction to the mind of every individual, of the great necessity of the Legislature enacting some powerful laws for the better regulation of madhouses: such observations, indeed, would be foreign to the immediate object of these preliminary remarks. The report, as printed by the House of Commons, is in four Parts, and the evidence appears in the order b