The second annual report of the Committee of Visitors, of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1853 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
Date:
1853
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Credit: The second annual report of the Committee of Visitors, of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1853 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Suggestion. Enactment, Section 47. Suggestion. Enactment, Section 54. Suggesti a Enactment. Ibid. To this provision should he added the power of providing for the pre¬ paration of the Building in every way for the admission of the Patients, such as the Wages and Board of the different Officials, to organize the Establishment and of Attendants and Servants to clean and set in order, and to he ill readiness for the actual admission of the Patients’ Coals for warming and drying the Building, Candles, Soap, Books, Forms, Stationery, Sic., so as to carry the expenditure on the Building Account for all these matters up to the day of the first reception ot Patients; and as the first payment by Parishes and Unions for the maintenance of Patients in an Asylum cannot be made for possibly three or four months after the first opening of the Establishment, it is very desirable that power should be given to the Court of Quarter Sessions, on the recommendation of the Committee of Visitors, to order the County Treasurer out of any monies in his hands to make to the Committee such temporary advances as may be required, until the sums due for maintenance shall be received, such temporary advances to be repaid to the County Treasurer within say two years from the opening. “ Clerks of Guardians and Overseers to make out annually Lists of all Pauper Lunatics, and send same to Visitors of the County Asylum, and to others.” Where there is more than one Asylum for a County or Borough, a List should be sent to each Committee ; the words “ or County Asylums where more than one” would require to be added after the word “Asylum” in this section. “ Every Lunatic, under an order for admission into an Asylum, shall in the first place he sent to the principal Asylum. Where more than one principal Asylum shall be erected in any County, it is suggested above (See Note to Section 8), that a certain number of Parishes and Unions should be assigned by the Court of Quarter Session, with consent of Commissioners in Lunacy, as a separate district for each Asylum, and that the Patient should in the first place be taken to the Asylum of the District in which the Parish is situate, from which he has been sent, as the principal Asylum. “ Any of the Committee of Visitors may order removal of Lunatic from Licensed House to Asylum.