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The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane
The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane Author:John Conolly General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Original Publisher: J. Churchill Subjects: Psychiatric hospitals Mentally ill Medical / Internal Medicine Medical / Psychiatry / General Psychology / Mental Illness Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there m... more »ay be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Situation of Wards for the Elderly and Feeble. -- Infirmaries. -- Former Abuses of Restraints in Wards for the Sick. -- Present Arrangements. -- Airing Courts and Grounds. -- Classification out of doors. -- Recreations without and within doors. -- Evening Entertainments. -- Clothing of the Insane. In the arrangement of an asylum, peculiar provision should be included for the elderly and feeble, of which the number is generally increasing in asylums in which the incurable patients remain for life. Quiet, airy wards, on the ground- floor, should be allotted to these weak and old people, with doors opening into grassy airing-courts. Above these wards, the infirmaries for the sick, the paralytic, and others whose strength is rapidly declining, may conveniently be placed. Perhaps the most advantageous situation for all these wards for the old and weak and sick would be a small retreating wing at the extremity of the main line of the building, where the advancing wings also commence. It is incredible to what an extent all provision of this kind seems to have been forgotten in asylums for the insane, until within the last few years. Even at Hanwell, the whole design of which was dictated by humanity, and arose out of the anxiety of benevolent persons to deliver pauper lunatics from the dens in which they were before confined, the sick were for a time placed in small close wards, in a third story, at the two extremities of the b...« less