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disease,
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also,
ThePRECEPTOR,
than is at,
certain destructive habits, practised by youth much more
who holds
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MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES AND
LUNATIC ASYLUMS.

(From the Lancet, of Saturday, Nov. 7.)
The meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates on the
29th ult. was attended with considerable interest to
the medical profession, and some curious facts were eli-
cited which will not be easily be forgotten. One of
the Magistrates, a Governor of Bethlem, asked the
Chairman, if; in consequence of the abandonment of re-
straint, a patient had not committed suicide at Hanwell?
The Chairman replied that it was from the imper-
fectnn
cid
otnhoaitiy
,thes Bethlem.s
y sworthyktenmnv: for Magi-
strate
thatth
that
tt
could
ou Id state
nn oi nt s otb, fe
as tb hen:
because
Governor
r .
a patient at Bethlem had recently hung herself in her
own strait-waistcoat. Surely it behoves the Directors
of the Hanwell Asylum to take care that the shutters
are in a proper state, and the Governors of Bethlem
that their strait-waistcoats are properly fastened. Then
a Magistrate stated, that the breakage of glass was
terrific at Hanwell, since the abolition of restraint
there ; and another Magistrate replied, that a great
cause of the increased expense was the reglazing of the
building, which used to be repaired with block-tin in-
stead of glass ; and that all the breakage by the pa-
tients could be prevented when honeycomb blinds were
put up, and that they had been ordered nine or ten
months ago, but why they were not put up no one could
iesdtraatt,c.eis
Hanwell,
tell. Then some one spoke highly in praise of the
forthcoming Report by Dr. Conolly ; and, in reply, the
President of Bethlem, Sir Peter Laurie, said that the
Ma-
physicians of Bethlem had made a report also, and
declared the Hanwell system impracticable. We trust
that the Governors of Bethlem will direct that Report
to be printed, and as extensively circulated as the
ben
another from
Middlesex Magistrates have directed the Report of
Dr. Conolly to be. Science demands it, but humanity
still more ; and if the Report be withheld, the public
spoke
againstwilltli a t not
t tohbee say,sysatisfied.st system
't
. of
puttingseOcl nu
es
seclusion,
on
person,f, aths epr
Macitanigsa state of
Ina_
tnhheic
lighta 1 excitement,is partiallyin e
excluded
lruodoemd ;
gistrate said, that the only differenee between the Han-
well system and the old system is, that upon the old
system, 'in addition to the solitary room, the sufferer
was chained to his bed, with his arms and legs pinioned
and chained ; and then came the most extraordinary
part of the whole proceeding, which we give
- _ more at
length. .... .
bayn d himself,
then
Sir Peter Laurie begged to observe, that
the subject of seclusion he entirely differed in opibLon
with Dr. Conolly. Tbat seclusion was, in truth, onlyn
another term for solitary confinement ; and solitary con-
finement was well known, as the annals of the Peniten-
tiary would prove, to cause madness in sane
persons •
and what then must be its effects when applied to the
insane ? He disapproved of thei practice altogether ; it
would not be permitted in Bethlem... em..
~.......
with
Mr. Tulk said be had listened surprise, ho
might say astonishment, to the statement
Becould of the worthy
President of Bethlem. e assure the worthy
President he was entirely mistaken in supposing that
there was no solitary confineTt in Bahl_ .
Bethlem that the
fact. was quite the reverse. That within the lasi month
a remarkable instance hall occurred,which in
a patient,
whose case had excited much interest on the bench, had
been confined not only in
solitudet but in total darkness,
without a ray of light, or the perlorationfshutter
which a
which could admit of one, fora
if fertnight, and was found
in that state by a visitor ; and the report of the keeper
a were true, as to the cause of his con-
to that gentlema
medical
finement, it was not as a • measure, but for striking
the steward ! What think you of this, gentle reader ?
Now here is a most extraordinary contradiction, and
not the less extraordinary, because in the Parliamentary
of the state of Bethlem, it is asserted that Report A heir beds
pa-
tients are at times chaine. tc., tb , for long periods
and only returned as " in their eds. ' Either Mr. Tulk
or the President must be in error.;. and if the former, he
has been grievously if imposed on ; the latter, how little
must he know of the real management of that hospital.
This matter shall not rest here. Arany other curious
statements, and counter-statements, were made ; but the
result of the proceedings was an unanimous determina-
tion to support Dr. Conolly and the humane system of
treatment, evinced by a suspension of the standing or-
ders, and the re-election of the Committee of last year.
The most sensible part of the day's proceedings was the
declaration of one of the Magistrates, that the whole
subject of the treatment of the insane must be brought
before Parliament ; and so it must.
We take the following extract froth the Report of the

" The Report of the Visiting Justices of the Hanwell
Lunatic Asylum was then read. It was very volumi-
i ness. and contained tonaas ofilighly-inieresting and im-
portant information. There was also appended to that
document a report from Dr. Conolly, the medical su-
perintendent of the asylum.
" Mr. WiLsoar approved of the report, but could not
help thinking that the plan of non-coercion' had been
carried too far. He had heard, too, that one of the pa-
tients had lately committed suicide—an occurrence
which might have been prevented had the party been
subjected to.the-proper coercive means.
" The CHAIRMAN observed, it was a very well-ascer-
tained fact, that there were a greater number of sui-
cides in lunatic asylums wherein coercion was used,
than in those wherein it had been abolished. He could
not help feeling that it was a matter of astonishment
that there had been but one suicide in the course of
twelve months in an asylum containing upwards of nine
hundred patients, rather than that a solitary case should
offer fair or just ground for complaint against the plan
which was adopted.
" The Rev. Mr. TRIMMER entirely disapproved of
the system of non-coercion, which was at present in
existence in the Hanwell Asylum ; the statements re-
lative to which were, in his opinion, of a nature strangely
calculated to give a false gloss to the transactions
which took place in that asylum. He fancied, in addi-
tion to the instance of suicide of which mention bad
been made, that there was another in which two other
patients had attempted, but, he was happpy to say,
unsuccessfully, to commit a similar act, whilst there was
a case where a patient bad destroyed himself a very
short time after his discharge as cured. The system
in operation at Hanwell he denied to be one of non-
coercion, for he contended that it was one of ineffective
coercion—a system wbicb, in his opinion, the visiting
justices were in no way justified io adopting.—(Hear.)
I.sebtr; TULx,.iofzeplya to.the charges whieb had-beets
brought forward by.the Hon.-and, Row Megistratorea.
marked that they were not in any way founded on any
official information, but that they were the result of very
imperfect information, which the Rev. Gentleman had re-
ceived from parties well known to be hostile to the new
plan of discipline at present in operation in the asylum.
—(Hear.) The plan of Sir W. Ellis had been adopted
and carried out by the visiting justices, because they
were fully convinced that it was based on the principles
of kindness and humanity towards the unfortunate and
unhappy patients. As to the charge relative to the
patients who had torn off their clothes, he begged to
say that every means had been taken with a view to
the prevention of such an act by those individuals who
were known to have evinced a disposition to tear their
apparel. Then, as to the medical department of the
institution, all he would say was, that he reposed the
greatest reliance in the professional skill of Dr. Co-
nolly, a confidence which, he ventured to assert, was
properly reposed, as was abundantly proved by the large
increase in cures, and the diminution in the number of
deaths in the asylum.—( Hear, hear.),
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a difference of opinion has arisen upon this subject
amongst
the
ileast desire on the part of any One of them to
go back and retrace their steps until they had arrived
once more at the old system.—(Hear, hear.) He had
recently gone over an institution abroad wherein there
wete no fewer than 3,000 lunatics ; there, however,
there was less restraint on the patients than at Hanwell.
" Sir P. LAURIE thought the best plan to be adopted
now was, that the further discussion be postponed until
the Report had been printed and circulated amongst the
Magistrates.—( Hear, hear.)
" The CHAIRMAN here said, he trusted he might be
allowed to say a few words at the present moment. It
was well known that he had taken a very active part in
the welfare and concerns of this institution.—( Hear,
hear.) He congratulated the whole nation upon the
discussion which had taken place that day. That the
subject of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum—of lunatic
asylums he ought properly to say—must be brought
before Parliament ere long, there could not he the least
doubt.—(Hear, hear.) He had been the visitor of
other asylums than that which belonged to the county
in which they were assembled, and there he had seen
unfortunate lunatics in chains and manacles in numbers
to such an extent as to shock most deeply the feelings
of humanity.—(Hear, hear.) The subject, indeed, was
one which demanded the deepest consideration.—
( Hear, hear.) He felt himself called on to reply to the
statements which bad been made by an Hon. Member
of that Court. That gentleman had asserted that the
Committee. were kept in the dark and in ignorance as
to the proceedings in the asylum. That Hon. Gentle-
man would excuse him if he at once said that such was
not the fact ; be had been imposed upon.—(Hear.)
For instance, he had been told that patients bad been
permitted to remain for days together in a state of na-
kedness, and had been locked up in dat k rooms. Now
this circumstance ought to be explained. A gentleman
had gone over the asylum, and had subsequently said
that he hnd seen patients in dark cells. In reply to
that declaration, he begged to say that at Hanwell
there were not any dark cells. Would the Court allow
him now to detail to them some instances of what was
termed mild restraint ? He had seen within the last
fourteen days a man—he would not say in what asylum
it, was, but he had gone there on the recommendation of
a gentleman who was an acknowledged advocate of mild
restraints—who was in heavy manacles. Within the last
month, in another asylum, whither he had been sent by
a gentleman of great benevolence, because he said the
asylum was well conducted, he had seen three young
women who were bound fast down to their beds, with
their hands passed through rings, so that they were ut-
terly incapable of moving, and yet such treatment was
called mild restraint.—( Hear, hear.) He had seen,
ton, a man who was manacled by the legs so tightly as
only to be able to shell: along the flo -tr, in which state
he had been for no fewer than ten years.—(Hear, hear.)
The arms of the young women were black and blue
from the chains which had been placed around and upon
them. He had seen in another county asylum, said to
be an asylum in which the system of mild restraint was
practised, two men who had been chained to their beds
for four years and a half; the one for having struck his
keeper ; the other, because it was said that he had been
tried for having stabbed a man.
" Mr. FORBES suggested that it would be as well that
those asylums should be named.—( Hear, bear.)
" The CHAIRMAN had no hesitation in doing so.
The one was an asylum in the Isle of Wi;ht, the other
was the asylum at "Maidstone, in Kent. He had in the
latter, too, seen a female fastened into what was termed
a coercive chair, with a large cuirass of thick leather
round her body, so tight, that as she moved it creaked.
Her hands were pinioned before her, and on his ask.
ing her if she would like to be released, she answered
that she should be grateful if her hands were to be
freed. There were also between twenty and thirty
others who were in different sorts of manacles for acts
of mishief.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
" The Learned CHAIRMAN then went into a detail
of other good results from the new system, and ex-
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neral advantage might follow to all those persons upon
whom the heavy visitation of the Almighty had fallen.
—( Hear, hear.) He besought the Court to allow the
humane system, which had been hitherto, although the
period had been but short since its practical introduc-
tion on an extensive scale by Dr. Conoll7, so success.
ful, to have a fair trial.—(Hear, hear.) Confident he
was that it would prove one of the greatest blessings
'which could be awarded by one human being to an-
other. Let not the Committee be stopped in their en-
deavour to carry out the plan. He asked but a further
continuance of the —confidence of the Court to the
committee, and the result, he felt satisfied, would be
such as not only to justify that course, but would ac-
complish an endless benefit on society at large, as well
as realise one of the brightest pictures in the sphere of
humanity. The Learned Chairman concluded an elo-
quent and feeling address amidst the applause of the
Court.
" Mr. LAURIE said, it was impossible to have lis-
tened to the able and eloquent speech of the Learned
Chairman, without, in a great measure, being carried
with it.—(Hear.) He was, however, ene of those who
thought that the visiting justices bad been kept in
ignorance of the proceedings in the asylum.
" A long discussion then ensued, in which Mr.
Rotch, Mr. Wilks, Sir P. Laurie, Mr. Tulk, Sir J.
Williams, and Mr. Wilson took part, after which the
Report was received and agreed to, and ordered to be
printed and circulated amongst the Magistrates."

PRINCE ESTERIIA was prematurely an-
nounced that Prince Esterhazy had arrived in Paris on
his way to London. He arrived at Frankfurt on the 7th
instant, and left the day following for his destination, by
way of Wiesbaden and Brussels.
As the completion of the unfinished portion of
the Great Western Railway is now regarded as of the
utmost importance by the shareholders, the Directors are
making every possible effort to get the whole line opened
at the time specified (Ist June, 1841); and we understand
that some of the contractors hare had liberal offers made
them to finish the works considerably within the time spe-
cified in their contracts. Consequontiv. the greatest ac-
tivity prevails in the neighbourhood of \Vottcn Bassett and
other places.—Bath Chronicle.