On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane With Observations on the Construction and Organization of Asylums

Were each case of lunacy systematically registered, it would, we believe, frequently save legal contests. Documents dealing with property are often matters of litigation, on the...

In the class of cases just sketched, we have presumed on the ability of the friends to incur the cost of private treatment for a longer or shorter period; but many are the perso...

These quotations indicate the state of the law respecting the detention of lunatics elsewhere than in asylums. This state cannot be held to be satisfactory: it evidently allows...

However, to resume the consideration of the 'ward-system' as it exists, let us briefly examine it in its relations to the wants and the treatment of the insane. Every day adds c...

There are, as heretofore remarked, very many insane persons who are not sent to asylums or private houses, at least to those in this country, and whose relative number yearly it...

These extracts are certainly not precise enough to enable us to state, except very approximatively, what may be the estimate of the Lunacy Commissioners of the numbers who shoul...

According to the present state of the law, there is no intermediate position for a person suffering from any form of cerebral agitation or of mental disturbance; he must be decl...

The evils of overgrown asylums have not, as might be expected, escaped the observation and reprobation of the Commissioners in Lunacy, who have referred to them in several of th...

The views of the Commissioners will meet with general approval. The prevalent system in France of breaking up an asylum into sections, more or less detached, we hold as preferab...

Again, there is another difference between asylums and workhouses, which tells in favour of the latter in an economical point of view, whilst it proves that the expenditure of t...

We agree with the Commissioners in the general features of the plan advanced, and indeed, in our notice of the Reports of the Middlesex County Asylums, in 1856 (Asylum Journal,...

In the next place, the medical staff of an asylum should be large enough to secure daily medical observation and attendance for each individual patient, along with a complete su...

The last-named Act, having thus failed in its objects, was much varied by that of 1853 (16 and 17 Vict. cap. 96), the last enacted, which was less ambitious in its endeavours to...

The noble chairman of the Lunacy Board, according to his valuable evidence given before the Special Committee of Lunatics, just printed, appears to have been an early and consta...

The "Objections to Intermixture of Inmates" are briefly stated. "There is no mode of complying with suggestions for" the peculiar benefit of insane inmates, "without disturbing...

But the duties of this officer, in relation to the lunatic poor under consideration, would not stop here. In his visit we would require him to investigate more narrowly than a U...

The unfitness of workhouses for the detention of the insane, and the evils attendant upon it, have been repeatedly pointed out by the Commissioners in Lunacy in their annual rep...

Now, by one of the propositions contained in the Supplementary Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy (1859, p. 37), it is sought to render a similar protection by another expedi...

We have in past pages referred to magisterial authority in relation with the pauper insane, as frequently exercised prejudicially, and with reference to asylum construction and...

District physicians appointed in Italy and Germany, 169.--Recognition of principle of appointing district officers in England, in the instance of sanitary medical officers, 169....

Concerning paralytics, they state that they are far less numerous than epileptics, and being for the most part helpless and bedridden, are treated as sick patients in the infirm...

There are in too many asylums grave errors of construction, government, and management, which detract from their utility, and damage the interests of both superintendents and pa...

Thus the marshals discovered the number of insane to be in 1850 nearly double that returned in 1848, and from their apparently searching inquiry, it might have been presumed tha...

Our business has been to point out wherein a necessity appears for the appointment of a district medical officer in the interests of the insane, and to indicate, in general, the...

The Report of the Suffolk County Asylum records the admission of ten poor persons in 1852 "nearly seventy years of age, nine over seventy, three over eighty; sixteen in a state...

BY JOHN T. ARLIDGE, M.B., A.B. (LOND.), LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; ASSOCIATE OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON; PHYSICIAN TO THE WEST OF LONDON HOSPITAL; FORMERLY ME...

Another advantage will accrue from the system proposed. The amount of cleaning will be much diminished, for the two floors will be used only alternately, and not only the wear a...