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London, England, 1827-11-16 00:00:00

BY MR. ROSE.

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MIDDLESEX COUNTY LUNATIC

ASYLUM.

A numerous Meeting of the Magistrates .of the
county of Middlesex, took place yesterday, at the
Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, for the purpose of con-
sidering the propriety of establishing, in this county,
a general asylum for the 'reception of pauper lunatics.
There were no `less than 53 Magistrates present,-
17. CoiqsT, Esq. in the Chair.
:Mr. Sergeant PELL rose for. the purpose of ad-
dressing the Court, when he was interrupted by
Mr. Jessop, who stated that there were some peti-
tions on the subject which had better be read first:
Petitions were then presented against the pro-
posed measure, frotrt a meeting of the inhabitants.of
St. Andrew, Holborn, and other parishes, and from
the following parishes :—St. James, 'Westminster ;
Sr. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the Martyr;
St.
_John, Hackney; Edgware; Great Stanmore;

•
Little Stanmore ; Willhesden; Chiswiclt; Felt-
; Hampton Wick; Finner ; St. Clement
Panes; St.' Mary, Whitechapel; and Chelsea.—
The petitioners deprecated the proposed measure,
principally on the ground of the additional expence
it would entail upon the county at a time when the
comity-rates were already cruelly :oppressive tomany,
atid some of the petitioners stated their Opinion that
under., existing circumstances, the measure was
• xvholly uncalled for. One petition in favour of the
measure was presented from the .parish of • St.
George, Hanover-square, in which were the signa
tures' amongst others, of the Earl of Shaftesbury
and Mr. Sturges Bourne. These several petitions
having been read by Mr. Allen, the Clerk- of the
Peace,

_
Mr. Sergeant PELL rose, and addressed the Court
at considerable length. hen he had been most
properly interrupted by his Learned Friend, Mr. Jes-
sop, he was about to state that his mind was oppres-
sed with a painful sense of the deep 'importance of
the subject to which he should now have the honour
of calling their attention; but he must first express
his regret at the absence of tlie original mover of the
question, Lord Robert Seymour, who had been un-
able to attend here to-day throughage and infirmity.
After paying a high compliment to his Lordship for
his humane exertions in this cause, the Learned Ser-
geant proceeded to state, that it appeared from the
returns that the number of pauper lunatics in the
county of Middlesex was 873; and of these the
number confined in liceused, mad-houses was 567.
Now the question for the Court to decide was, had
these unhappy creatures that care taken of them
which their peculiar and miserable state required?
By the 14th of the late Kiwg it was enacted, that
these houses should be licensed, and no person could
be received into them without the certificate of a
medical man, arcept paupers, who were receivable
without any medical certificate. (" No," from some
of the Magistrates.) The Learned Sergeant referred

to the words of the 49th section in confirmation of
his statement. His attention had been - called to

he fact, when visiting one Of these dreary recep-

tacles of misery, for he had himself witnessed some
of those scenes to which he was about to call atten-
tion,—quccque ipse miserrinuz vidi:---bewas there

informed that this most wretched class of beings was
not subject to the review, of the Commissioners
appointed by the College of Physicians ; and
consequently there was a lamentable failure of
care in respect of them. But, whether they were
or were not, the Commissioners were only re-
quired by the Act of Parliament to visit
the houses once a year; and they actually did visit
them three or four times at most in each year, upon
which occasions the visitation lasted for about two
hours. Now, how many patients was it possible for
them to examine within that period, in a house con-
taining 500?—(Hear.)—But another curious cir-
cumstance had come to his knowledge ; he had dis-
covered that the College of Physicians entertained
the .extraordinary opinion that they had not the
power of withholding a licence from any person ap-
plying for one. So that' the Commissioners might
pay their annual or quarterly visits, and still find the
same abuses continuing year after year in the same
houses, and yet that learned body, the College of
Physicians, supposed that they must nevertheless
grant licences, to every one of these houses in which
the abuses existed: for they considered themselves
only ministerial officers, and that, consequently, they
bad no power to withhold licences. Then, if they
were so, where was the use in empowering them to
grant licenceS, or in requiring the houses .to be li-
cenced ?—(Hear.)—lt was like supposing that the
Magistrates were not authorized to refuse a licence
to a public-house which they knew to be of an im-
proper or disorderly character. .The Learned Ser-
geant here referred to a part of Dr. Bright's evidence
before the Committee of the House of Commons,
to show that he was not overstating facts. It was
at page 157 of the Report— • . .

Will you read an entry-of November 18, 1816, relating
to Holt's house at Lewisham, in Kent ?—A very disorderly
and disgraceful house.

Will you read an entry of April 16, 1817, relating to the
same house?—The house is not objectionable, but the ex-
planations of the master not being satisfactory, did not ob-
tain the confidence of the Commissioners.

Will you read an entry of May lb, 1820, relating to the
same.house T—ln a close room in the yard two men were
shut by an external bolt, and the room was remarkably close
and offensive. In an outhouse at the bottom of the yard,
ventilated only by cracks in the wall, were enclosed three
females; the .door was padlocked ; upon an open rail-bot-
tomed crib herein, without straw, was chained a female by
the wrists, arms, and legs, and fixed also by chains to the
crib ; her wrists were blistered by the handcuffs ;
she was covered only by a rug ; the only attendant
upon all the lunatics appeared to be one female ser-
vant, who stated she was helped by the patients.—
The Secretary was directed to write to Mr. Holt,
and convey to him the opinion of the Commissioners,
that the mode of confinement used for the paupers is harsh,
cruel, and unnecessary ; that the outhouses employed for
the confinement of the patients are totally unfit for the
purpose ; that one female servant is insufficient for the
care of them ; and that the Commissioners wish to convey
to him, in the strongest terms, their sense of the bad
management of the whole concern.
How many lunatics were then in that estalrlishment ?
Eleven.
Will you read an entry of June, 1820, relating to the
same establishment removed to Blackheath '?-:.The door of
the out-house used by the pauper men was open, and one
person was confined therein by chains : the Commissioners
inspect the lower out-house to he still used as a sleeping-
room ; they hold it to bean improper place for the confine-
ment of any lunatics. They hold the accommodation .and
management of this house still to be very inferior.
Will you read an entry of November 23, 1822, having
reference to the same house ?--One of the male patients
was alone in an outhouse, without fire, the windows were
recently broken, and probably by his own act ; he was
without shoes, but in other respects sufficiently clothed.
After considerable difficulty the sleeping apartment of this
patient was discovered up a private stain-case hid by the
door, when that door was open, which leads from the house
towards the back-yard :itis a single room, small and of-
fensive, containing only a wet and dirty piece of sacking,
filled with straw, with one rug and a blanket. The pa-
tient is said to pay 20s. a week. Upon the discovery of
this room, Mr. Holt avowed himself to be ashamed to show
it to the Commissioners, as they found so much fault with
his arrangements. The Secretary is directed to write to the
friends of this patient, &c."
ge-
nerally
comes the opinion of the Commissioners ge-
tr"
Dlr. Holt's conduct in endeavouring, by direct false-

hood, to conceal from the Connnissionersthesleeping-room
of one of his patients, is highly reprehensible, and the
management of the house, and the care and accommodation
given to the patients ill general, is very inferior."
Then followed entr►es of 1821, 1822, 1823, arid
1824, the last of which was—
A very bad, uncomfortable, ill-managed house. The
patients complained much of their treatment. As there
seemed to be some ground for their dissatisfaction, it was
thought proper by the Commissioners that their friends
should be informed of this.

And yet this house was licensed the next year.
But in the best of their private houses there were
great and important defects
of system : one of these
was want of classification. It was true the men and
women were kept asunder ; but if the frantic maniac
were placed beside the melancholy, moping 1
te,cliner,
the effects of such an association must be; upon the
first dawn of returning reason, to beat down and

crush, and extinguish it for ever.—(Hear.)—Another
defect was, the want -of
.proper curative process. It
appeared that one of those gentleinen had 500/. a-
year for the care 0f,500 patients, Ont of which sum
he was also to supply them with medicine. Now,
how was it possible that this could enable him to
provide the necessary care and attention for persons
in a state which, More than all others, required the
most minute and particular care, to ellbsv them
any chance of recovery ? And, accordingly, how
were they restrained ? With the, handcuff, the
fetter, and strong purges. Their phySical strength
was reduced by wasting cathartics, and they were
chained down to wallow in their own filth. If,
at such a nititnenti one of-these wretched creatures
were to recover his reason, it Would only be to
curse the hour that ever placed him in his dreary
prison. Instead of such a mode,. of treatment, the
unhappy patient should be soothed and comforted;
and he (the Learned Serjeant) believed from his soul
--,-froiri the telt bottom pf his soul—that nothing
was so likely to sooth and assiuiga the gOaded mind
as religious comfort,—not of a heated or fatiatiCal
character,—but that gentle religion which God and
nature pointed out, when God gave us revehition.—
(Hear.)—He would now show the cruelty of the
present system. Here the Learned Serjeaut re-
ferred to that part of Mri 'Warburton's evidence be-
fore the Committee of the House or ttittitions, page
79 in the report, in which the witness stated, that
all his violent crib-patients were periodically con-
fined from Saturday .to Monday ; that unnecessag
confinement at any time was an abuse; that

e-otild assign no reasjonibr this practice in his esta-
blishment ; and:that he declined answering the ques-
tion, whether or not he considered it necessary. Re-
ferring also, to theeVidence of Dr. Bright, statingthat
the patients were cleansed with a mop and cold
water, which the doctor considered most barbarous, the
Learned Serjeant dwelt upon the cruelty of the treat-
meat to which it was thus proved the miserable
lunatics had been subjected, and then pointed out
the important consequences which might frequently
result to them from the want of medical treatment
to which they were exposed; in remedying which
evil, Lord Robert Seymour had done more by one
act of his, than the whole College of Physicians
together. The Learned Sergeant next alluded to
the language contained in some of the petitions, and
asked if, now that the facts were fairly before the
public, the petitioners would say that they were sa-
tisfied with the present mode of providing for their
pauper lunatics, and wished that it might be con-
tinued because it could be done " at a moderate ex-
pence." There lay the secret.—(Hear.)—Every
honourable and humane sentiment was crushed,
when that loathsome feeling of self-interest crossed
our path. The wretched paupers were chained, suf-
fering from fever, shivering with cold, purged, mop-
ed with cold water ; all very true, but it was done
at a moderate expence. (Applause.) The first
impression, however, on his own mind was, that this
measure would be attended with a great expence,
and bad, therefore, better be avoided; but when a
petition to that effect was handed to him to sign,
he refused to do so, because, being a magistrate,
he would not preclude himself from further con-
sidering the subjects when he. should receive ad-
ditional information. Another worthy magistrate but
who was not then in the commission, signed the pe-
tition at the time ; nevertheless he (Mr. Sergeant
Pell) was confident that now he had better informa-
tion on the subject, he would this day vote in
favour of it. With respect to there being only one
petition presented for the erection of an asylum, that
was because no steps had been taken to procure pe-
titions.—(Hear) With the truth on their side, the)
did not want petitions. He (lid not wish to give
pain by any observations of his; for he was sure
hat those gentlemen who bad been at the head of
:he establishments to which he had alluded,.had not

wantonly sanctioned any acts of cruelty or neglect;
but the fact was, their establishments had been toc,
large, and they were therefore compelled to trust to

subordinate agents. The Learned Sergeant went
on to refer to the cases of various patients who had
died either through neglect or bad treatment; and
mentioned the case of a sailor Iboy, whom he had
caused to be discharged from one of those houses to
which he had been . sent, without being in the
slightest degree mentally diseased. A man named
Fairman, who was in Clerkenwell workhouse, re-
fused to do some work, and was sent to the White-
house, where he was confined for three weeks, until
the flesh grew over his fetters, and his bones pro-
truded through the skin of his back, which had
become ulcerated. In five weeks afterwards, this
man gave substantially the same account of the cause
of his having been sent there as he did on the first
day. The Learned Sergeant, after dwelling upon the
frightful misery occasioned by the present system,
proceeded to combat the objection of expense,whicl.
was urged against the proposed measure. The Lan-
cashire Asylum, containing 300 patients, had only
cost 60,0001. Now supposing that for Middlesex
were to cost double that sum, a half-penny rate,
which was upwards of 10,0001. a-year, in 14 years,
would discharge theprincipal and interest of 200,000/.
and who would say that the removal of the dreadful
sources of misery which he had described would not
be cheaply purchased at such a price ? It had been
proved, that if patients received proper attention
within three months from their first illness, seven on:
of eight of them recovered; if within six months, a
smaller proportion of them : but if they did not re-
ceive it within a year, their case was hopeless. At
present the law had no means of compelling early
attendance; but if there was a country asylum, at-
tendance would be compellable in seven days; so
that ultimately the expellee to the county would be
much less. It was objected by some that this was
only a job. As a proof that it was no job, all the
advocates of the measure had voted for its discussion
before the public. The first step of those who con-
templated a job would have been to secure secrecy.
(Hear.—The veil was never drawn up by those
who had motives of private interest for their con-
duct. Besides, the names of the Committee who
had drawn up this report were a guarantee against
such an imputation. The Learned Sergeant men-
tioned the names of Lord Robert Seymour,
Colonel Clitheroe, Mr. Byng, Mr. Bouverie,
Mr. Lushington, &c., whose characters he
eulogised, particularly that of Lord Robert. Foi
himself he should only say, that he would wish for
no higher reward than to have it inscribed on his
tomb, that he had been one of those who had con-
tributed to the establishment of an asylum for ths
comfort and cure of those who would otherwise have
been left for life in the helpless, hopeless, deserted
state, in which they must have continued if the pre-
sent system were allowed to remain unchanged.—
The Learned Sergeant concluded an able and affect-
ing address, of which we have only had space for a
brief outline, by thanking the Court for their atten-
tion, and proposing a resolution that it was expe-
dient to provide an asylum for the reception of
pauper lunatics in this county.
Col. CLITHEROE seconded the resolution.
Sir G. FARRANT said, undoubtedly the Learned
Sergeant had made out a strong case of abuse; but
he thought those abuses might be corrected in ths
private houses as well as in a general asylum. The
county rate was at present most oppressive, and there
was great difficulty in collecting it. Many unfortu-
nate persons had their beds sold from under them,
and therefore the Court should pause before the)
would put the county to an enormous additional ex
pence, if it could be avoided. The worthy Magis-
trate concluded by moving an amendment, that it
be referred to the Committee to inquire by what mode
the present abuses might be remedied, without
putting the county to the expence of building a lu-
natic asylum. •

Mr. BALLANTINE seconded the amendment. He
agreed with the Learned Sergeant, that the Coßeg(
of Physicians had not done its duty, otherwise thest
abuses would not have existed. Some 'time must
elapse, before an asylum, if they agreed to build one.
could be completed; and during the two or threL
years that would thus intervene, the sufferings whiel,
ht to have paned out tilt
described must continue.
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means by which they meant to check those-suffer-
ings in the mean time. He did not suspect any-
body of being actuated by a desire to promote a job.
but he was :intim. for further inquiry.
Mr. BROUGHTON, itt an animated speech of con-
siderable length, supported the original resolution.
He trusted that if they came to a solemn decision
to-day, setting this qeestion at rest, the institution
would be completed and in full action this day
twelvemonths. He contended that it would be at-
tended iiith a considerable saying to the county.
The pauper Ititinfies at present cost the county
.18,000/. a-year. Sultptise the building were to cost
od,ooo/. (which he thought it would not), that sum
might be borrowed at 41. or even 5L per cent. ;
5,000/. a-year would keep down the interest; 5,000/.
a-year more might form a sinkitig fund, so that
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to the erection of such an establishment, when they
should see the noble' edifice rear its head. The
Learned Gentleman urged the adoption of the reso-
lution, both On the ground‘of humanity and economy.
Mr. BeiscOk proposed a third measure—namely,
the erection of an asylum on a small scale-7,viz.,
one which would not cost above 40,0001, and would
hold 200 patients. The worthy Magistrate was pro-
ceeding to urge the adoption of this proposition at
soiiie length, but being informed he could not move
an amendment upon an amendment, and the Court
beeoming impatient for a decisiOn of the question, he
declined.
cp eAsLinnEgnist asnayi furtherd
that, fioir thet;le
Legislature
thought that the private mad-houses could be im-
proved they would have passed some measures for
that purpose. But it was quite hopeless, and there- •
fore the only plan was to erect 'a proper general
asylum.
Mr.
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not been touched upon in this discuss!en. A system
had certainly been disclosed fraught with evils; but
in this mind the new one would be fraug'et with still
greater. A most lameintable body of evidence had
certainly been presented to the Committee of the
House of Commons on this subject, and in evasion
and falsehood had never been surpassed. Tiv:
Learned Gentleman, after referring to some extraete
from the Report in proof of this assertion, proceeded
to argue, in a speech of considerable ingenuity, that
greater evils would be occasioned by increasing the
county-rates, than those which it was intended to
remedy. The tax would be grossly partial in some
parishes, in consequence of the difference existiree
between the state of the population in the rural
parishes from that of the town parishes, the numbar
of lunatics being one-third less in propoLtion in the.
former. As a proof of the oppressed state., of the
poor-rate payers, he need only refer to the fact that
700 warrants of distress had been executed in one
morning in the 'parish of St. John, Hackney. In fact,
the oppression of poor's-rates was beyond all imagi-
nation ; and if some of _those gentlemen present,
who
were, he was. certain, .actuated by strong feeliege of
humanity on this occasion, were to direct their dart,
towards procuring the abolishment of that act by which
this dreadful tax had been inflicted, they would there-
by remove a far greater load of misery than could pose
sibly be accomplished by the erection of, a lunatic
asylum ; whilst any addition to that already over-
whelming tax would reduce many of these who had
to pay it, to the state of those very oisjects for
whose advantage it wee sought to increase it.. Par-
liament would now meet in a few weeks, and it
would be more advisable to wait and see what courier
they would adopt. With respect to a quotation
of the Learned Sergeant from an authority which we
all revere, " I was in prison, and ye came unto me,"
Ile was quite sure they would all receive the
reward which such conduct merited ; but still he
thought it would be better to bestow some of that at-
tention without the prison, which it was so much :he
fashion at present to bestow within. In his opinion
it would be better to observe the preceding part of
the exhortation from which the quotation was taken.
" I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat ; I was this sty,
and ye gave me to drink; I was naked, and ye
clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me,"
(Hear.)—The Learned Gentleman concluded by
supporting the amendment.
Col. WOOD was sure that if they waited until Par-
liament met, as soon as they should s ead the evi-
dence before the Committee, they would come tO
the conclusion that the Magistrates ought no longer
to have the option of building an asylum or not. He
hoped it would never be said that the county of Mid-
dlesex, in which, although there was much po-
verty, there was also great wealth, was not able to
accomplish that which had been done by other
counties.—(Hear.)
Mr. Sergeant PELL, in his reply, lamented the
state of distress which prevailed amongst the poor
as much as the Learned Gentleman (Mr. Jessop),
and would be happy to see the evil remedied. Al-
luding to the disgraCeful practice which prevailed at
Harrow, where the poor were let out by auction to
the highest bidder every Friday night, as if they
were so many beasts.—(Cries of " Shame !")—As.
soon as it came to his ears, he and his Brother Magis-
trates of that neighbourhood insisted on the matter
being brought before them ; and being Chairman of
those Sessions, he declared that he would, as a Chris-
tian, put down a system that degraded his fellow-
creatures below the level of their species, and Was cal-
' culated in time to bring every man in the parish to a
state of pauperism. The introduction of the subject of
the poor-rates, however, was as foreign to the ques-
tion before the Court as that of any public works.
Alluding to the misery of the pauper lunatics, he
said he hoped their (the Magistrates) " eyes should
not slumber, nor their temples receive rest," until
they discharged a great duty to thase who, if they
had no friends in them, had no friends at all.—
For twenty years their hopes had been dis-
appointed by procrastination, which had always
been a favourite mode of getting rid of the
question. But he trusted that at last the Magistrates
of Middlesex would no longer say that 870 unhappy
beings were to have no .place for their comfort, or,
what was of more importance, for their cure.—(Ap-
plause.)
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It was consequently not put.
car-
ried,
Resolution, appointing a Committee to
carry the first into effect, was also eturied, and the
Court adjourned.

The day was very unfavourable yesterday for
Borth fair, yet there was a
good . supply of cattle of every
description. Lean cattle were very dull of sale, but supe-
rior qualities went off briskly 0 from 81. to 121.—North
Wales Chronicle.
LORD NORBURY'S LATEST.—The follow-
ing is the latest attributed to the facetious ea-Judge of the
Irish Court of Common Pleas. It relates to his successor,
Lord PLuxxirr, and the New Irish Chancellor. One of
the Chancery Barristers asked if the former had attended
the procession customary at the opening; of the November
Term, and was answered iu the affil.mative. " How did
he look?" demanded the querist. " Oh, extremely wel',"
puffed out Lord N., " but I can assure you be was sick at
Hart "
Yesterday evening an inquest was held in St.
Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Join; WILLIAMS, a
lad 'about 12 years of age, killed by the falling of a wall.
GEORGE MAY, a fireman, deposed that on Saturday last,
between eleven and twelve o'clock, he perceived the de-
ceased and several other boys playiag near the ruins occa-
sioned by the late fire in Queen-street, and warned them
off, but they disregarded him. In a few minutes a wall
fell, mid crushed the deceased and another boy, who were
conveyed to the hospital. Mr. WARD, dresser to Mr,
TRAVER% stated that the deceased was received with the
back and upper part of his skull fractured, of which inju-
ries he died on Tuesday morning. Verdict—Accidental
Death, and a deodand of Is. The yOuth was apprentice to
a watchmaker, and hore a good character. The other boy
lies in 4 hopeless state.