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LIFE IN AN ASYLUM. A DOCTOR'S DISCLOSURES. During the shortage of medical men occasioned by the war, Mr. Montagu Lomas, M.RO.S., retired general practitioner, volunteered for the post of assistant medical officer in a county lunatic asylum. He served for two months in one each institution, and for early two years in another, and the as- sertions which he makea in The Experi- can only ences of an Asylum Doctor
The book is be described as amazing, a grave indictment of our whole system of treatment of the most unfortunate and unhappy section of the population, an indictment of many counts which the public conscience could hardly allow to stand unanswered, Eere. summarised under the beading, of "Things I saw,” are some of them
Thousands of so-called pauper lunatics on both the male and female side crowd- ed together in vast barrack-like construc- tion with no tempt at classification or segregation..
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Superintendents whose time was taken up with office work, who never make any effort to organise and develop systematic methods of cure, and whose chief object) seemed to be to keep in with their visiting"). committees.
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their reports that the general public was unaware that these evils existed.
Visiting committees who seldom or nevet visited, at least in any systematic or thoroughgoing manner, and whose chief function sected to consist in eat ing a monthly dinner at the asylum's expense.
The list is a distressing one and the shocked reader gathers little comfort from the reflection that Dr. Lomax may have been particularly unfortunate in the two institutions (said to be of the largest in
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The reform of asylum administration and lunacy legislation has made little progress in this country, says Dr. Lomax, because the public are ignorant of the reasons for ita necessity, although for long time past those concerned in syslum administration have admitted and plored that necessity. Our asylums de tain, but they do not cure; or, if they cure, it is only by accident and despite the system; and the root evil of that system, according to Dr. Lomax, is the fact that the medical head of the institu- tion is also the executive chief
With the vast amount of work which the ad- ministrative side of his office throws upon him, the medical superintendent is a medical superintendent only in name, and the result upon the medical efficiency of the asylum is disastrous And an almost equally responsible factor is the inade quacy of the staffs, both of doctors and } attendants,
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It was into such awful company, in the Dr. Lomax says there is no inherent
author's experience, that new patients necessity for the evils he describes; they of certain types were admitted, instead. spring largely from the fact that it of to the reception.ward, with the bright seems not to have entered the official and cheerful surroundings and treatment mind that fanatic asylums should exist
not merely for the safe and bumane decesary for their particular phase of malady; but "detention and tention, but also for the remedial treat restraint, as cheap and effective as pos ment. and, if possible, cure of jasane sible," was the keynote, and there was
There was applied a gospel of not sufficient staff. Not that the allega Зетвода. cheapness which meant that he had a50. patients, on an average, under his own tions are founded only on the inade quacy of personnel. Dr. Lomax con- carse a number which was doubled ori demns strongly the practice of clothing when his colleague was off duty patients in what they regard as "prison" And
upon the paucity of attendants is laid the blame for such things as the attire-nothing tends more, he says, to convince pauper lunatics and their behind the table 13 treatment, a friends that madness is regarded by the "brutalising form of restraint." Being law and society as crims and disgrace
put behind the table"
means that and he lays to the charge of the cus patient's freedom of movement is abso-tom of depriving them of their over- lutely curtailed; he is not allowed to coats, combined with improper diet, tho walk about or mix with the other
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patients, but must sit behind the table exceptionally high death-rate from tuber. culosis The most powerful drugs were, and against the wall, where he can be the author, asserts, habitually used in more closely watched, and restrained if both the asylums in which he served, with necessary. This method hae, says the vory little regard to their possibly seri- author, "been in use for years, and he ous effects.
characterises it as ก inhuman. device "It is so much casior, and saves so much; to Eve the attendants trouble," which time, to prescribe a strong sedative or would be unnecessary if there were suffi-hypnotic to a noisy and restless patient, cient of them, or were the patients pro- than to try to find out, and, if possible, perly graded or classifed.
to remove, the cause of this restlessnca Let the reader try to picture the scene, and excitability kept uit heure the worst casca in the ward, Behind the kept drugged, & very different thing.""
only table they sit all day with their backs Asylum boots and "shoes, adequacy
Hore, perhaps, are a dozen or more of cases
food,
to the wall. In front of them is an and the almost incredible attendant always' on duty. They have and bad condition of the surgical ap no amusement, no exercise, no employ-paratus and facilities which he saw pro ment.
Not even for meals do they vided for use, Dr. Lomax deals with change their places or surroundings, these and many other matters in close speech of these patients is often detail, and the reader who follows with obscene and blasphemous, their habits
his plea for better working quarrelsome and Slthy, their persons conditions for both doctors, and attend dirty and malodorous. Bestialised ante is startled to come across such d apathetic, matincus,
sentence
wonder often quarreling fiercel malevolent
this,
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many each asylum doctors become disheartened and other at meal times, snatching away finally apathetic, that others take to each other's food or spitting into each drink
and drugs, that a few commit other's plates-they sit all. day in their suicide" Even if it is only to prove miserable corner, at once the most that the conditions described were to be damning indictment and the most degrad found in but two asylums, the book calls ing example of our humane and scien-for an official reply, and that reply fine treatment of the pouper lunaticshould be made quickly Daily Tele
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