Reports for the year 1854 / Saint Luke's Hospital for Lunatics.

  • Saint Luke's Hospital for Lunatics (London, England)
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Reports for the year 1854 / Saint Luke's Hospital for Lunatics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hospital on alternate days in the week, instead of once a week as heretofore, whereby a more constant supervision of the patients by the Physicians, has been secured. A correspondence having arisen with the Commissioners in Lunacy, subsequently to the resignation of Dr. Philp, some important resolutions have been agreed to by the Court, with reference to the future arrang-ement of the Medical Staff. O Thus:—At a Court of Governors, holden on the 23rd March, 1854, IT WAS DECLARED, that if, on consideration, it should ap¬ pear that the adoption of any suggestions or recommendations of the Commissioners in Lunacy on the subject of the Medical Staff, would be attended with increased advantage to the patients, the Governors of St. Luke’s Hospital would be willing to re-consider the existing Rules and Orders for the government of the Charity, with a view to effect such improvements and alterations therein as might be deemed expedient. The appointment of a Physician in the room of Dr. Philp was accordingly made subject to any alteration, revision, or determination, consequent on such proposed reconsideration of the Rules and Orders. The Commissioners in Lunacy having, amongst other recom¬ mendations, represented to the Committee that, in their opinion, it was highly expedient that the Resident Medical Officer of the Hospital should possess paramount authority therein, your Committee, yielding to the views of the Commissioners in Lunacy, recommended to the Court that the Resident Apo¬ thecary” should in future be styled Resident Medical Super¬ intendent,” and that, subject to the control of the General Com¬ mittee, he should have paramount authority over every officer resident in the Hospital in respect of the medical and moral care and treatment of the patients, Tliis recommendation