Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane : a lecture on the management of lunatic asylums and the treatment of the insane, delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838 : with statistical tables, illustrative of the complete practicability of the system advocated in the lecture / by Robert Gardiner Hill.

  • Hill, Robert Gardiner, 1811-1878.
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[1839]
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Credit: Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane : a lecture on the management of lunatic asylums and the treatment of the insane, delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838 : with statistical tables, illustrative of the complete practicability of the system advocated in the lecture / by Robert Gardiner Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    House Visitor's Beporf. 1821, Odoler 22.—I have visited the Asylum frequently in the course of the last week, and as far as the economy of the house is concerned, I see no cause of complaint myself, and hear of none either from the Director or the Matron; the provisions are very good, and every thing appears orderly and regular. But the attending Physician and the Director having both of them made the strongest representations to me of the insecurity of the building, from the inadequate state of the fences, I feel it my duty to submit the subject to the consideration of the Board: it is one which I am well aware has already often engaged their attention, and that pecuniary difficulties alone have prevented the adoption of some remedy for the evil complained of: but when I am ex- pressly informed that owing to its continuance the patients are either prevented from taking the exercise proper for them, or in order to allow of their doing so without danger of escape, are fettered in a way which would be otherwise unnecessary, that their health from this cause is in many in- stances suffering, and their recovery in consequence retarded: and when it is evident that the character and credit of the Institution must be materially injured, if the idea of its in- security is suffered to gain ground, I trust I shall stand ex- cused for thus pressing the subject again on the notice of the Board. Number of Patients—Males 11, Females 3. (Signed) George Gordon, [Visitor.] Odoher 29.—Ordered, That an estimate be given of a wall round the front ground, with a sunk fence within. Extract from the Physician's Report. 1821, December 4.—^^No. — is seldom quiet for more than an hour together throughout the day, and is a per- petual source of disturbance to the other patients.