The second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1847 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell : January quarter session, 1847 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ilUTjiilessejr. TO HER MAJESTY’S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE for the County of Middlesex in Quarter Session Assembled. THE SECOND REPORT of the COM¬ MITTEE of VISITORS of The County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell. As the period for which the Committee of Yisitors were ap¬ pointed terminates at the present Session, it becomes their duty to lay before the Court a statement of the present con¬ dition of the Asylum; and it affords them the utmost satisfac¬ tion, after the experience of another year, to he enabled to speak in terms of still higher praise of the humane system which has, happily, been progressing in the establishment for some years past, and they have not had the slightest cause to regret the abolition of all restraint, wdiich they attribute to the zealous and efficient manner in which the duties of the officers and servants have been performed. The Committee have received during the past year the cor¬ dial co-operation of all the officers of the Asylum, and have much pleasure in stating that harmony and good feeling have prevailed in the establishment. The Committee are anxious to draw the attention of the