Chapters On the History of the Insane in the British Isles Pt. 1
Chapters On the History of the Insane in the British Isles Pt. 1
Daniel Hack Tuke
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The able writings of Dr. Conolly have of late years contributed greatly to strengthen that impression, and to bring about a much more humane treatment of lunatics in many provincial asylums, than that which formerly prevailed." Referring, then, to the Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners (1844) it is observed that " proof is afforded therein that this amendment had not extended itself to old establishments for the insane, and that much severe and needless restraint continued to be practised... in numerous private, and in some public asylums. In many of the private asylums, and more especially in those which received great numbers of pauper patients, much mechanical coercion was practised, until it came to be in great measure laid aside in con- sequence of the repeated advice and interference of the Commissioners. ... In private licensed asylums it has FAVOURS NON-RESTRAINT, 221 been thought impracticable to avoid the occasional use of mechanical coercion without incurring the risk of serious accidents.
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