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LUNATIC ASYLUMS:
THEIR ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT.
By CHARLES MERCIER, M.B.,
Late Senior Assistant-Medical Officer at Leavesden Asylum, and at the City of London Asylum.
PART I. HOUSING.—General Principles: Sanitary Conditions—Supervision—Treatment and Grouping—Precautions—Size; Cost; Equipment; Accessibility. General Arrangements: General Construction; Walls; Floors; Windows; Blinds; Locks—Heating; Open Fires; Hot Coils in the Wards; Hot Coils outside the Ward; The Fire-places; Fire-guards—Lighting; Gas Meters—Water; The Softening of Water; Water Meters. Wards and Ward Offices: (a) The Day Rooms—Furniture; Floor Covering; Curtains; Tables; Seats; Screens; Bookcase; Newspaper Stand; Letter-Box; Piano; Decorations; Flowers and Plants; Medicine and other Cupboards—(b) Dormitories—Beds; Woven Wire Mattresses; Bed Feet; Special Forms of Bedstead; Mattresses; Pillows; Blankets; Quilts; Chamber Utensils; Mirrors; Brushes and Combs; Lockers; Screens—Supervision Dormitories—Single Rooms; Shutters; Ventilation and Lighting—Padded Rooms—Bath Rooms and Baths—Urinals—Water-Closets; Position; Floor and Walls; Forms; Water Waste Preventers—Lavatories; Basins; Towels—Sculleries—Slop and Brush Closets—Boot Rooms—Soiled Linen Closets—Coal Stores—Ward Stores. The Dining and Recreation Halls, Chapel, &c.: Recreation Hall; Heating; Ventilation—The Chapel—Receiving Room—Visiting Room. Communication: Passages; Staircases. Administrative Portion: The Kitchen—Scullery—Laundry—Wash House; Drying Room; Ironing Room; Foul Laundry; Boiler House—Stores—Workshops—Offices; Superintendent’s; Assistant Medical Officer’s; Other Officers’; Library; Dispensary; Mortuary; Photographic Studio. Accommodation for the Staff: For the Medical Superintendent—For Attendants—For Assistant Medical Officers. Airing Courts: Plants—Flower Beds—Paths—Seats—Birds and Games.
PART II. FOOD AND CLOTHING.—Food: Character of Food—Beverages—Dietaries. Testing: Meat; Salt Meat; Flour; Bread; Butter; Milk; Cheese; Sugar; Tea; Coffee; Cocoa; Vinegar; Pepper; Mustard; Salt; Beer; Tinned Provisions; Rice; Peas and Beans; Potatoes. Storing and Keeping: Meat; Tea; Coffee; Cocoa; Mustard; Pepper; and Spices; Tinned Goods; Milk; Butter; Cheese; Potatoes. Serving: Mode of—Table Furniture—Extra Diets. Clothing: Women’s Clothing; Dresses; Petticoats; Stays; Undermost Garment; Stockings; Boots; Hats and Bonnets; Shawls; Men’s Clothing; Trousers; Coats; Waistcoats; Shirts and Undershirts; Drawers; Neckties; Boots; Overcoats; Hats and Caps.