Reasons for the establishing and further encouragement of St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, established 1750, incorporated by act of Parliament, July 4, 1838 : together with the rules and orders for the government thereof, and a list of the governors and benefactors.

  • St. Luke's Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1842
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Credit: Reasons for the establishing and further encouragement of St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, established 1750, incorporated by act of Parliament, July 4, 1838 : together with the rules and orders for the government thereof, and a list of the governors and benefactors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    had been lost to society, either by the disorder gaining strength beyond the reach of medicine, or by the patients falling into the hands of persons utterly unskilled in the treatment of the disorder, or M'ho had found their ad- vantage in neglecting the means of cure.—That many families (in no mean circumstances) through the heavy ex- pensJIa^fflii^ the support of one member thus afflicted, had themselves become objects of charitable relief, and thereby doubled the load and loss to the public.—That the most fatal acts of violence on themselves, attendants, and relations, had been often consequent on the unavoidable delay of placing those afflicted with this disorder under the care of persons experienced in guarding against and pre- venting them. That no particular provision had at that time been made by law for the care of lunatics.—That the SmWil^Pfash work-houses were nowise proper for their i^eptiofl^ teer in point of accommodation, attendance, or ififedical assistance, and that the joining this to any other Ibspital, would have deprived it of two of its principal ad- 4%,ntages,--liife being under the immediate inspection and ^^(V^^Mti^ttf ^M its own patrons and supporters, and of in- illWu(!ii|^iiife gentlemen of the faculty to the study and ^^actice of-this' most important branch of it, they determined ^iiefefore'^tb open a subscription for a new hospital, under ^# nam^J^ of ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL for Lunatics, %iich has since enjoyed so large a portion of the patronage and