Reports for the year 1856 / St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics.

  • Saint Luke's Hospital for Lunatics (London, England)
Date:
1857
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Credit: Reports for the year 1856 / St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OP THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF GOVERNORS OF ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL, FOR THE YEAR 1856. To the Court of Governors of St, Luke's Hospital. In presenting to tlie Annual General Court, their report of the proceedings of the Hospital for the past year, Your Committee feel that the Governors will observe with gratification, that con¬ siderable progress has been made in carrying out the extensive improvements, and alterations, which in recent years, have occupied their attention. In former Reports, Your Committee enumerated many remark¬ able improvements which had been effected, such as ; The provision of an entire new system of Drainage The removal of all Iron Bars and Gates formerly deemed essential to safety, and the consequent abolition of the old method of coercion and re¬ straint ■ The division of the long gloomy Galleries into Wards, and the formation of open and well-lighted recesses, wherein the Patients assemble for amusement and recreation;—•