Observations on the management of madhouses, illustrated by occurrences in the West Riding and Middlesex Asylums / by Caleb Crowther.

Date:
1838
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Credit: Observations on the management of madhouses, illustrated by occurrences in the West Riding and Middlesex Asylums / by Caleb Crowther. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHAPTER VI. On the Fallacies and Tricks employed at some Lunatic Asylums, to make the apparent Num- ber of Cures greater than the real Number. Tacito qucesita dolo Victoria. PATIENTS DISMISSED BY DESIRE OF FRIENDS. In the report of Mr. H. G. Knight's motion, given in the Times newspaper, for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the state of the Hanwell Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Mr. C. Barclay says, he must mention that Dr. Ellis told him that the returns he had made were incorrect, and that they could not be otherwise, because he was obliged, when parties were taken away by their friends, to put them down as discharged cured, though they were not so. This statement is altogether incorrectv- Dr. Ellis was under no obligation to put down patients discharged by the desire of their friends in the list of cures; nor was he warranted by the practice of any well-regulated Asylum in so doing; nor can he plead ignorance on this subject.