The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-09-12 00:00:00

NdriL INTALLItitNCE.

POKESNInt:TH, SEPT. tn.
. This morning the Cep.iats sailed, with Mr. Gam-
bier, tl:e Consul for Lisbon, on board. She sastained
!wale tiarnatte in trying to twat down Channel, which
Liss been repaired, and she has sailed again, with a
Fair wind.

A cimir.tl Drury io heintly expe6ted from London;
the Last India Convoy will u.il soon after he arriveb,
tar wind ticiug fait.
Came into harbour the Po.t Mo4oa.—Wind N W.
PLY kthETII, SPP 1. 9.
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Arrived the Hot v.!, of ISi guns, Cayt. Lac.kyer,
elf Ler* 211.41.idc ft IldOr, at d the Pt 4:g schr.tocr,
from the Wes.,:-.1.

Came in the Aia. at lugger, from (3.•rer ey,
Boaz. twin Quebec ; an two !):it:T,, vessels from
Loth detained by 1.1._ 1111jei•y's ship Pierer.
Lar night sailed to join the •-^l fleet is l'or-
hay. His Majesty's ship ne guns.
Capt. Lechatere i and Mrs fire- • ; also the
steorpson brig, Captain Stanfeli. s Velma uth.
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DIAL ,
Sailed from the Downs, this Int ^rorg, His Ma -
jetty's ships Ateispe and Trody, with the 'Grocer y
&ova. for the South Seas, and the reit of die out -
ward-boiled, &c. tinier convey. fa. Pic' th.
Arrived, and sailed for the river, C.e L Eng lie,
hem New-Y‘nic.

Doves, s. el% 10.

Yesterday, in the afternoon, a btig transport
passed here, trims the we%tward, with :t signal ct
distress flying ; ore rrt rn r i;iiote.bniits, in getting ont
of the har,li nr, to render her assista: ce, was in very
gie.it clangor of hung, hest, it ',lowing * gale cis
wind atahe time from the eestwaid, aiid a very
heavy s^a hi tore e }IIIOIIIIIIT. •
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7 t;it. Jot-. ..st ;re.:li%inq changed, and becnme
m• re orturrtite, Large fleet ut vesa?s, :Itch hail
teen de4.tir,•tl in the Downs. ttr,itad passtd,
under cst -ray at :a Aeon) of War.

Arr;ved the hr.,: Xpr rf Dnepr, Popkis,
from Itiite.-ens.Paiirti with the above ti_et, tt,r Cnrk
tl'e her of anti. tr,r Dover,
with coals, from Strode:land ; aosi the Ma,A.vet
- - with

CRIMINAL AND PAUPER LUNATICS.

(Miarassaigillsace, esadased hem a former taper.)

Ts Sr. Luke's at any tium wholly occupied with
lunatic.? Always.
What number will completely occupy it Three
hundred.

What spate of ground does the balding itsi-lf
occupy ? The building is 493 ft. loos. and 301 t. deep
in the centre, the wings projeft frost front and rear
66't each.

Vhat is the numher of apartments in St. Luke's ?
The body of the house consists. on the ground
?bor, of the master's office and closet. the :Tone-
eary's office and shop, a dining and visiting rooms ;
en the one pair, of a committee. physician's. and a
waiting-room; on the two pair, of a master's. ma.
tron's, and apothecary's chambers, and a work-room ;
on the three pair, of fiv.: bed-rooms. There are
seven galleries, each of which contain; thirty-tiro
single rooms, [Oft. 6i:i. by Sft. rws rooms, twit
beds in eaeh. 18tt. tin. by 9ft. 9in. a sitting-room
28ft. by 13ft. a smaller sitting room for get: aaory
patients lOtt. din. by Oft. and a servants' room
about 17ft. square. There are two attics in the
building, containing five mom; each. in which the
ether patients are lodged; there are els/two privies,
a wash-room. and three straw shafts.
N. B. The sitting-room would be better was it
wider, and the smaller sitting room should-be larger,
one privy, and one straw 'haft would be sufficient.
How many kitchens? if but one of what size ? A
kitchen 28ft. by 181 t. bin. and scullery adjoining
el ft. by 9ft. a sma:ler kitchen 1811. by 13tt. in
which the servants dine.

Flow many wash-house: ? if but one. of what
size? One wash•housr 56ft. by 12ft. one for foul
blankets, ss:. 27tt..by 12ft. _ _

N. B. It would be an advantage if the large
wash-house WAS wider.

How many laundries ? if but one, of what size
A drying room I Mt. square, heated by a stove, and
a niangling and ironing room `2Gft. by llft.
N. 8. This is hardly wide enough s beside the
kitchens. St:. above stated, there are on the ground
floor, baths, a laboratory. coal cellars, sad water en-
gine.
IVhether the present building is, in your opinion,
Whelan:ly commodious for the number and descrip-
tion of lunatics now specified by you to have ge-
nerally occupied it ? Yes, with the exceptions above
steed.

Whether the same sized building, which has com-
modiously supplied all the waou and comfort, of
that number and class of patients now described by
you, would have had within itself sufsc•ent accom-
modation. provided thirty-five of the specified rum-
ba, of lunatics had been paralytic. and a like num-
ber of thirty-five had been in a state of bodily weak-
ness? No; but lam of opinion there will never
be more than half that proportion paralytic or out of
health.

Do net 100 loaatics of a weak and infirm and a
paralytic descriptios, require more room, more care,
more attendants, and more expense. than the same
number. sot jetted with bodily diseases ? Yes; a
number of 100 would require two additional nurses.
What additional number of attendants would be
required, if a fifth of these SOO were paralytie, and
otherwise weak and infirm ? One man and one
woman.

What additional expense is wine, spirits, medi-
cine, and nourisLing dist, would ten paralytic and
weak lunatics require, over and above the same
number of ten of that description kept in St. Luke's ?
From two to three shillings per week each.
What food are the lunatics generally supplied
with iu St. Luke's? Breakfast—water gruel, with
bread, butter, and salt. Diener—on Sundays,
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, mutton, beef,
veal. and sometimes park, with the best table beer;
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, broth.
Supper, bread and cheese, or bread and butter, with
beer ; a larger allowance on broth days.
What is the greatest number of lunatics allowed
to occupy one sitting-room? About thirty.
What fiise is the room the greatest number oc-
cupy ? 23ft. by ISit.
What is the greatest number of lunatics allowed
to sleep in any one room ? Four in a state of re-
covery.

What is the size of the ro'm in which the greatest
number sleep ? ?Aeneas feet 4 in. by 9 ft.

What site are the beds ? what the cost ? are the
bedsteads iron ? The bedsteads are of wood, 6 ft.
by 9 f moveable ones. cost 21. 18s. Lied with
leaded drawers, Etc. SI. Ss.

In general, alter lunatics have been under an
uniform management at St. Luke's. is it necessary
that one in ten should be under direft coercion
It is not easy to average the number of patients in
ten that require a continuance of coercion. I think
they may be about three in twenty; they are pa-
tients disposed to injure themselves or others, and
are seldom or ever to be trusted with confidence ;
much is certainly to be done by management, but
it is impossible, on this head, to lay down a general
rule; each effort must be adapted to the peculiar in-
disposition ; it is necessary to check some, to en-
courage others, wad to animate all with a hope of
recovery. . _

Du not a great proportion of lunatic., by a firm
and uniform management, and by habit, become
tradable ; which lunatics. if allowed to separate and
f iilow their own wals, would soon be unmanage-
able without c,ercion ? Yes, a large proportion.
Are there any idiots in &. Luke's, or such like ?
They are not allowed by the rules of the Hot-
Juan F.sq called in and examined.
I have turned my thoughts to the construttion of
a Lunatic Asylum.

For what asylum did you furnish plates! For an
asylum by subscription, for the county of Hereford,
for an asylum at Eimer, and for an asylum at Gloss-
cestcr, not yet executed. _ _

Can you Worm the Committee of the compare-
tire expetue is buildatg asylums for different nom-
lk.syt patients 1. I can. _

Whai would be the expense in building an asy-
lum, according to Sir G. Paul's plan, fir fifty pa-
tients in Loudon t Upon the suppositimmthat the
building is to be 'reified of brick, that the walls are
to to two bricks in thickness, the dining roost 21 feet
by 12, the wards 12 lent by 10 legit, and 10 feet in -
height, that the Overseei's room is to be 14 by It
tha: the doors and ceilings, and walls and partitions,

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we to be Seed with ebn.beswis. dsit &altrs end
pat titiona are to be filled in with savr-dnat, to prevent
the communication of sound, that the building* are
to be covered with slate. with dripping eaves; two
water•closets to be erested in each division of wards
the cow will be as under :

For the wards and salary L. 7,400
. . .
F., Ur: eating room, tie/swell room, water..claaets,
stairs tr. yard, cisterns, and watirr.closois api as,
tat.,aig to those ward., exclusive of general
offices, . . . . 760

L. 7,760

Supposing the general o/Ecers to consist of the
sific:s desciihed ty Sir G. Paul, in his scheme for
the Glqure-tzr Asylum, kitchen. scullery, two
I..rders, a pantry, a laundry, and was::-house, and
I q11411:a. catiug-room, and cellists on the basement
; a surgeon or ap:..tisecary's room, a room for
his medicin,:s, a room for Isis books and papers,
which is also lo serve as a committee-i man ; a hall
of insp,:flion, with staircas^ and gai:ery of inspee-
t;on for the upper wards; a housekeeper's room; a
store room, a bread room, hot and cold bath. a
waiting room, and a passage of entrance, to 'ue built
of the like materi.sls of rite wards. Will cost. toge-
ther with the bed ro...ns fur the dontessic officers.
5,1001.

What will be the eipense of aiding a third ward,
to coutilia 15 ? Ou the foregoing dAta, S,B )l.

Dr. Wittis called in, and examined.
How long have you been a Commissioner under
the At of Parliament of 14 Geu. 111. ? About a
year and an half.
During. that time have you had frequent oppor-
tunities of observing the manner in which the paut)er
lunatics are taken care of in the different private
maddionses within the distria of London and Mid-
dlesex.-1 have repeateoly visited the houses within
that distria during that time, but in general I hay.:
reason to think, that the inspedion of the Com-
missioners has been productive of considerable tin*
provement.
Has it in general met with your approbation, or
have you observed say want of due are and ma-
nagement ? lit general it has met with my appro.
bation, in some instances 1 have observed the want
of attention to cleanliness, and, in general, want of
accommodations.

Are they in general allowed a sufficient space ?
I think in general they are. •
What degree of medical attendance do you think
necessary in a house for the reception of lunatics ?
--In my opinion) a house should have the daily at-
tendance of a medical person.
U, patients of any particular description require
any peculiar accommodation. with respea to their
apartments. or to their food. or otherwise ? Cer-
tainly ; including the paralytic, the infirm, and the
violent, require each a separate plan of treatment;
the infirm will require a more nourishing sort of
fond. and warmer apartments, and separation from
the rest of the patients.
Arc you of opinion that warm and cold baths are
necessary tor lunatic patients? 1 think warm baths
may be very useful ; but it can seldom happen than
a cold bath will be required.

Do you consider it to be at all disadvantageous
that a lunatic should be removed to a dtstar.ce
from Isis friends t I do not conceive it to be disad-
vantageous in general. in some instances eveu ad-
vantageous.

,thers. °nisei, of and Irom Dossr, with
coals tram sanderl4std.
VA1•4011'11, seer. O.
Atrie•d this m ming His Nlajesry's cu ter-Srig
C beeves. front a etc, r.
P. al Ja,t at r 'rm.!, :'re Lc•ro re gur.bris, from off
Sapaselso rei,whfcis .!re lea un its t7rh nip
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