The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-14 00:00:00

PATRON.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of SUSSEX.
VICE-PATRONS.
His Grace the Duke of Richmond.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Chichester.
The Right Honourable Lord Wharncliffe.
The Right Honourable Lord Seaford.
The Right Honourable the Vice-Chancellor.
Sir Eardly Wilmot, Bart., M.P.
Sir Harry Verney, Bart., M.P.
Sir Charles Forbes, Bart.
Mr. Baron Gurney.
J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P.
John Ivatt Briscoe, Esq., M.P.
COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Benjamin Rotch, Esq.
Edward Hornor, Esq. Edward Harper, Esq.
CONSULTING PHYSICIAN.
George Birkbeck, M.D.
CONSULTING AND VISITING PHYSICIAN.
Charles H. Wilkinson, M.D.
CONSULTING SURGEON.
Edward Stanley, Esq., F.R. S.
Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Iss KT MEDICAL OFFICER AT DENHAM PARK.
C. A. Hunt, M.D.
Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
The Female department superintended by Mrs. Hunt.
BANICEIM—Messrs. Comas and Co.
SECRETARY.—James Taylor, Esq.
The object of this Institution is the restoration of the menta
"eulties of person sin the upper walks of life when disturbed by
disease or other causes. Persons of fortune, whose nervous tem-
perament may make a t emporary retirement desirable, will here find
protection and a hope, the Institution being conducted on princi-
ples involving most important advantages, as connected with the
ultimate recovery of the Invalids, and the security and satisfaction
afforded to their friends ; namely, first, that of studying the hap-
piness and amusements of the Patients, and preventing them, as
much as possible, (though at all times under proper moral and me-
!ice' restraints), from feeling that they are excluded from the or-
dinary privileges of society ; secondly, that of classifying the Pa-
tients in separate establishments, and not allowing those whose
disease assumes a permanently violent, or in any way permanently
offensive character, to reside in the establishment appropriated to
inch as are capable of enjoying the privileges of social intercourse ;
and, thirdly, that of placing each establishment at all times under
an entirely disinterested surveillance.
The great and most important novel feature of this Institution is,
that, while each of its establishments is in the strictest sense a Private
Asylum as regards the names and family connexions of its inmates,
and the special accommodation provided for those who require it, it
is, in the most important sense, a Public Asylum, inasmuch as the
visits of the usual Medical Attendant of the Patients, or their
friends and relatives, are allowed without any previous notice;
while every opportunity of searching into abuses or mismanage-
ment, as well as the power of restoring the Patients to their friends,
or to general society, when it may be done with propriety, is given
persons of the highest rank, talent, and acknowledged integrity,
and who have no interest whatever in the pecuniary arrangements
or emoluments of the Institution ; thus affording opportunities for
the Patients to make complaints, whether frivolous or just, without
the fear of being afterwards harshly treated, of which so many dis-
tressing instances occur.
It is a melancholy fact, that, while the Pauper Lunatics in the
county asylums are protected by the disinterested surveillance of
the independent magistracy of the country, and are blessed with the
medical attendance of a resident paid officer of first-rate talent,
whose emoluments do net depend in any way on the number of pa-
tients he can retain in the County Asylum; the unfortunate suf-
ferer in the higher walks of life has no refuge but the ordinary
licensed madhouse or private residence, where there is no surveil-
lance, and where the interests of the medical man, and of every
one by whom the Invalids are surrounded, are notoriously so much
more promoted by their remaining lunatic than by their recovery,
that a constant struggle between principle and self-interest must be
the result, while their friends often dare not encounter the re-
sroaches of the world for thus consigning them to what is too often
tot unjustly considered as a cruel and heartless oblivion, and are,
herefore, induced, at any sacrifice of comfort or convenience, to keep
hem at home, an arrangement at all times, it is well known, least
kely to promote their recovery.
To provide a remedy for this obvious and crying evil, the bane
E all existing Private Lunatic Establishments for the upper classes,
ie present Institution has been founded, and placed under the dis-
detested surveillance of its Vice-Patrons, Noblemen, and Gentle-
ten, whose high public character and station in society cannot fail
insure public confidence, and who have no other interest in the
astitation but what is prompted by a noble desire to benefit mankind.
'o these Vice-Patrons is given the power, whenever they choose
) exercise it, of visiting the Institution, of instituting inquiries, of
ommunicating with the Resident Medical Officer of the Institution,
r with the friends of the parties, and of restoring any patients to
hem, or to general society, without reference to the Committee of
lanagement, or to the Proprietors of the various Establishments
f the Institution. To the Committee of Management are con-
ded the arrangements for receiving patients into the Institution,
nd the superintendence of the detailed management of its Este-
lishments ; so as to secure the perfect carrying out of the social,
isinterested, and effective plans which it embraces. To remove
le temptation to detain any patient beyond the period necessary to
itablish a cure ( where a cure is practicable), the Resident Medical
ifficer of each Establishment has a salary wholly independent of
le emoluments of the Institution, in which he will not be allowed,
irectly or indirectly, at any time to participate, so that his disin-
,trestect attention is at all times exclusively directed to the cure of
he patients, and the discharge of such as recover under the treat-
tent, or whose friends wish them to be removed ; while, as a
briber stimulus to his exertions in this respect, a premium is
branded to him by the Institution for every patient permanently
cued, according to a fixed scale dependent on the shortness of the
)nod during which the patient has been under his care. On him
aane devolves the entire responsibility of the medical treatment of
*e patients ; it being obvious to those who confide their invalid
fiends or relatives to the care of this Institution, that this respon-
ibility is of a nature that cannot be shared by the Committee of
danagement.
'The great hope of the promoters of this Institution is, that they
may be able to set an example of a more attentive, benign, social,
active, and effective system of treatment for persons afflicted with
mental diseases than has hitherto been adopted ; to prevent the pa-
tients feeling that they are outcasts from society, and unfit for so-
eta' intercourse, and to direct and encourage that portion of the in-
tellect which yet remains into amusing sources of occupation, while
strict attention to health, air, and exercise, works the restoration,
rendered hopeless only by neglect of these important considera-
tion-.
b._ ? very object of' luxury or taste which the eye of the patients
205 been accustomed to dwell upon, if suddenly removed from them,
,71 rks evil, which, however gradual in its progress or imperceptible
its origin is not the less certain in its ultimate injurious effects;
lnd if a permanent cure be the honest intention of the parties en-
trusted with their care, the Patients should not be allowed, for one
orment to feel that their removal from the noise and bustle of the
sr, Id as Invalids, is more than a temporary retirement for the
ote effectual cure of a temporary disorder, an object which can
;::1 be obtained by giving them every social and domestic comfort
amusement which their disturbed state of mind may leave them
Pable of appreciating. This system, which reason dictates and
homed will
approves, once fairly introduced to public notice, it is
hetwill lead to its extension, if not voluntarily, at least by some
of the Legislature ; for it is surely impossible that the present
in ,e,tlled and supine if not worse, treatment of the Upper Classes
enfrivate Lunatic A'sylunins, can be endured by an intelligent and
,„_tiOttenea people, who, while their best energies are directed to
43 borate the condition of the Pauper Lunatic, leave the more
nent but equally helpless class of their afflicted fellow-beings a
ebb
to the unmitigat miseries of mental inaction in those Esta-
ebt "lents, where their bodily wants are too often made the only
J,l:4lts of attention or solicitude.
Pry The principal Establishment belonging to the Institution, and at
Le" open for the reception of Invalids, is Denham Park, near
Zue.idge, in the County of Buckingham, seventeen miles from
taixill6ns where a sane society of persons has been provided, whose
he,. ng judiciously with the patients, both male and female, toge-
th.! With the other numerous appliances of the place, prevents
itit'lr feeling that they are outcasts from society, or unfit for social
th,e,reourse. Denham Park is a noble mansion, fit for the recep-
elt;: of Persons in any rank of life; containing a private consecrated
strl, where the family, and such of the Patients as may be be-
t% ,by it, assemble daily for morning and evening prayers. The
lia;dlLrY round it is very beautiful ; horses, carriages, gardens, bit-
ese„s? archery, fishing, music, a library, and, in short, every re-
"°,l and am usement, both in and out of doors, calculated to
Is remark the mind and promote the health, are provided. The house
zn;l.ably dry and airy, replete with spacious suites of apart-
ti", on a scale seldom met with ; the situation is pleasantly re-
and celebrated for its salubrity.
,4 he Terms of Admission for both Sexes at Denham Park, though
eo'essarily higher than at other establishments on a less advanta-
amtta and extensive plan, are regulated by the means of the parties,
ka the extent of accommodation required; and the Committee of
melds
gement are most anxious in all cases that the friends of the
sire4tdas should personally inspect the establishment before the terms
finally agreed upon.
ter. e Payments are required to be made quarterly, and each quer
140' Payment to be made in advance; but if the patients are re-
ti:ed before the end of any quarter, allowance is made for the
thethey do net stay, and a return made accordingly. Terms for
~.aurnission of friends or relatives visiting or residing with the
petits at Den-ham Park, in cases where the Resident Medical
agsee6rar approves of such an arrangement, are regulated by special
axs
Communications will be considered as strictly confidential,
Ittici„-`lll be addressed to any one of the Committee of Management,
tletl Cover to the Secretary, James Taylor, Esq., addressed,
ttn-park, near Uxbridge, Bucks

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