The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

sees comected with die bolded that he thought desirable..
Did he 'maim Sir Alosemda. H ninon ? lie did set;
he did mit ant to do so.
Is there say improvement% you would rows, is the gest
ral pommeled of the hospital, with:, view to rendering t:
inure effective I— I think that the governors might improve
it in this respect .—Thvommittee is pro. t,co::y an open one.
1 think it wield he desirable not th.t any governor should
be andaded, bet that there should be a distion committee
to be easel the Bethlehem Committee. We have it now in
this way : them is • gesseal committee. envision, of forty-
two who an paid* fur the prima management
.4 • hospital ; they are required to divide themselves
late seetions, and that colt should bo en duty for • colander
mouth, but that practically is a dead letter. I think it would
be desirable if a distinct mansittee wen appointed, ay ten
or twelve. who should be @woad to tarnish • rough daily
report of the proceedings of the hospital ; for until the year
184.3, there was au report presented to the governors. I
then drew up • report for that year, but we found it im-
possible to extort one from the physi inns ; we could get
no informative at all from them ; and the nett Ten I drew
up one myself, but the labour is too gr...t. We have now
got the physicians report, bat it is ther.ly a short skeleton
report, what I cell • turopike-gate Tema list of those who
come In sad go oat ; bat as to its being a valwabee report,
it neither creditable to the hospital ote of value.
Have you beard different complaiate at different time* of
the minsieduct oh the present :--I:lldoUbtelLy
have.
What is your system of inquiry into enages of that kind ?
Do you think it is good and effective.' —Wheamser any
chug. of the sort has tnen mode 1 have teen present, and
it has always been er.quised into. The Caorges are gene-
rally of a very vague character ; there is difficulty in re-
c.:lima sccusations from persons of that deseription.
In so large an hospital, is not a great portioa of the time
of the governor- engaged in the flnsuiol department?—
Yee, in the management of the estate.. The oat of the
government of the two hospitals of lie tiilehem and Bride-
well is in Bridge•strem, Illselftiars, at Bridewell, where
the great hall is, and the office, clerks, and receiver, and
when the general manogenient of the bueissees is conducted.
What an the precise duties and practice of the house
committee with reference to 11641160 M and inspections in
Bethlehem ?—The house committee do not visit Bethlehem
Hospital at all. The general committee is for the =mage-
nta at of the Main of Bethlehem llcspital, and they never
meet except at Bridewell hospital, emit," there is a sp.eial
inquiry.
Does that committee meet regularly even week —The
Bethlehem committee meet every week on a 'Friday.
le then generally a good attendance I—Generally there
is but a small attendance.
Are they generally speaking the same people?—No.
Do you coosider that to be an evil 1-1 -on/Wet it to be
sa evil certainly.
Do you think it would be remedied be your prollbsi-
bon if there was • fixed committee?-1 think so, judging
front what I have seen. Attached to Bethlehem is on
establishment belonging to Bridewell, called " The House
ofOccupation." The committee there wois of a loose and
fluctuating chanter; but upon my motion a Bled com-
mittee was appointed, said we have found it work better,
because we lied the gentlemen attend inc,7e constantly when
they are expected to *need, and we avoid all those once n-
attnenees that must attend a ductuotim; committee.
Has the treason any special ruthinity I—No decided
'credal authority. He has considerable authority, because,
la,ug the permanentchairman of the fluctuating committee,
be uncleanly exercises conaidenb:e Lithium. lie is
always present.
lie is the permanent chairman ?—Yes.
Did the Bethlehem sub-committee personally inspect the
various rooms and wards of the hospital, and convene with
the patience?—Some samberrs generally come to every com-
mittee. They go round the hospital, end they ask any
quotioss and make any inquiries they think proper.;
Do they trust at all and to any considerable extant to the
representatioas of the medical officers or matron as to the
comforts isecessary for the patients ?—Chictiy of the metros
and the apothecary ; the physicians never accompany them
Havelymair improvements been made lately spot the
female aids by putting the loose straw into ticks ?—Ye,.
At whom suggestion was that alteration made ?—lt was
entirely in consequence of the inquiry into the circum-
stances ommeted with the treatment of Miss Hysem.
There wee no doaht that the appearances on her body were
occasioned, as reported by the medical officer, from punc-
tures hoes pieces of straw. We were told that however
Implement the sound of putting lunatics on straw might be,
notwithstanding that straw was better for what are mina-
rily called dirty patients, and most comfortable far that&
13y whom were you told that:—Mr. Wood, the smedled
officer, gave that opinion, and we understood it was as
opinion also given by • professional member of this board.
However, we said, notwithstanding that, after the results
that appeared, it should not be the ease for the future.
Do you ever yourself go mod the hospital T—lre-
gumlike.
Have you ever been late the lissessent ward T—l have,
la the pot which is called the leek beseniest h—Yes.
Waists ever aware that patients in the boa beersest,
re befo ass booked up as sight, sea etslggeigedseely
naked, deed in theft tells without my lesdelledm
whatever I was adman of that.
If mach • eistenwat hod Noe to your knowledge would
yes set have lobes soessees s alter it ?—I maid have
him handles step le hews Imola it mkt the know-
ledge of the gprosasee, she, I believe, would set base
tolerated the oesdasesee of wet a not Ho one day.
Dm it .at Mints rat burls
poetise te have itsbould htiostsle with,
est die Imewiedge of of the visflisd ph si ?
raw almost ineenepeebessible, =dilutes t with
=ldischargeof their duties.
ower has the temenrer with rognet to the pa-
BIM% osa be give • general ceder indepsedleat of the cote-
MOM affelevernors ?—No ; I am not swan of hie powering
seal power.
steps have yea idea with respect to the abolition
of teesdat —I repeated trees time to time to the Bethle-
hem ennoittee the which the nou-rostraint system'
egg sohig ag ilea and other asylums, Imlay one of
11111•Alanalmlicea, aid the facility with which the re-
lad had bees redoeed. The don.
d▪ m
it mad sopsilsi spiast it. !bey Nil it was
ddlednee to • gnat Mist, bat they would dello best they
OW to Mace it. At Lest, however, 1 the...awed if they '
did set do it to the exam it had been oilseed is other
Wit., that I wield tote some devise publicity
IS thitaista Wow I this OMNI it 112941011.
Ws yes give lay sedeseent to the conotokeere as to
the air.. end disirestse of the exercise and illiettion al-
hued th=zie t—l think it is limited tee sesch. I
IMO the for the oedema night he
lowasoll, wad* of of iassesblemegions, Is
=111: obasatkoh mob es molisg and and ow-
-1 think • greeter &epee wagley.
Met aillogildur.reed to the than le see. Theo is •
iihredli lathe burial with rospeet it Ildwidba...o.7-
m-to- wird' who one in tad OM SIMI • very
eat epees of dos I disk the peenriest dos have
sotto, suisiont oneveis see iropleysiest.
Have the ANN gigittioto made say gari=ll°
raw y_yrous opassesr. I believe if ann..
*the goiersen for the lest 17 years (1 will answer
daft lot two) woe referred to, that you will dad not a
alt•Mi
ipS?km
esemsliteg4n; tub inpty %or the
Isißeti-
dries of is boded used for as WARM ?
nit so sew I W head the suggestion ups them. I
egos them the advantage dieidiag
ent ilelliehlifildelt mush toe lois, AM whichstla
to • Hileaky Is the elsofibedos. They Iles iessonesdied
Chet t bet with roped to esigleyseate, their ',verb
are • bird.
BiDt:= know the Mink, of beds that Hey have in
P—Then k• Am Ong provided fie the pa.
Seaga, holh male end lonia.
Have they semi to deent; d deponents have set; it is
*sly fee the quiet sad banter IMMO patitnts.
Do yea eirseider thst Xr. Heel, the reddest weed
elver, has toe swab Si de P—Well, I think be has lather
too mach. Ide wet soy le has too much to de se es elicio.
I know that at Haswell, where they have I.lNPHyseieste,
they love but two ellears. Os ere side these an 416
nests, and Dr. Weedier oily that webs. The demwey
is, that every =wheal eller mast have an eggeetnnisy of
keviagit esiodea, sot then the hospital is poodedly left
without seeded stowehiss. I think the
oeig= ere
this Implied Hen tie Adel Mltation of the re
Me set lees stlended with advantage.
Of what deo er desedidies are the nurses sal Wood-
son h— I so lordly oestpelest to answer that question.
The kende ameadeste sideded by the matron, sad the
side sosolede try thespeetroary. I must say, however,
that I MA bath, botopeolally the female attendants, are
of es Isfleffire domiplies elespoind with those I have seen
at oho pleas; they have so that kindness of manner
MOM don thet they sight to have. A:together, the nt•
tesiose bast of mesh • disnater as might be obtained for
es ostablishemest like Batielolos, where the attendants
have good lidos, good wipe, and every comfort.
The whim withdrew.

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STOIII AND FLOODS IN TUC NORTH Or ENGLAND.
—Pm Mae days mot (says • correspondent and eye witness) I
heavy rains have prevailed in the oath of England, and
all the stoma have been greatly swollro, end mane fields
laid seder water. The rain fell in the might:owl:ood of
Neworgir 0a Theirlay, along the line of the ()rent
Northam eke? poring Fetethow, the effects of the heavy
reins were chitin in the washed road., and the prole in the
bower roam ef the bade. North of Darlington • mile or
two thellsa heaths te amens a dyad level, and for some
oilmen herd dee wathrtheading for more thm • huttared
Tilde =Gila dendtbe II" which 'm.' across the plain on
a slightly seemed embmaltemat. Ey and by the rails became
altogether solusthri, sad the engine, with its henry tail
dearelsoms, lbw y premeethd to clear its way through
isaMmes Ithe of bees • foot to two feet to
inn. • Without mess shining through a clear frosty
sp the
_island sea we were thus somp,y nei-
• sad showed the ester flashing through the wheels
the wimps as Omagh the paddles of es missy little
bmi seamen. The tope of the fences here sad there at
the ibis of the Ilse were the sole visible evidences of the
meadthey es whisk me were waving for about • mils and •
bath sad 1•117 by I= nil the lawn and Itsteesn riming
Wei Of wider, we he seavithed the train
was mutually trawariag ea Wed country. sod not an arm
albs me. on. of the up-Senthe of the provisos night had
11, Main M NUNN& dew Moshing Ferry-hill, the line
Mindinagglis baths Owe temp suable. At Newcastle the
meal boa bon liannit sal sarmicably heavy for more
this a sweet. North of Norma* thu casatry has all the
• =MO se haviag hems theanably seihml by long-eon-
soh, sod the aspect of the sky Is still stormy mad
•111 useettbd.—ths4smars.