WELLINGTRON LUNATIC ASYLUM.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4176, 16 January 1879, Page 3

WELLINGTRON LUNATIC ASYLUM.

rtTes*. Special Wire.] - L Wel_isotoh, January 10. -n- Skae vis ted and inspected the Wellington Dr. _Eae" , November, IS/a Af^ f £ m w£ksS>• TW* "P° rt *» nerer or * It is as fallows:— ; the Asylum V? TyE. WW. 112. being 40more than 63 ; females, *»." attention to its overcrowded *** - 1 to *#-h_S M* reached a pit.h which «m&t«». w d baffled all attempts at is quite intended for the good _# i£££t a** •" «"** %%° % XLSb '** consequently no possibility of * tofc -'___S«»of excited and violent patients, safely accidents, even murders, l i_tl2£. w* t° SV** ° f the * are liable to be en- • of persons of aU-SSStSSf-S bereft of . The are need as Sleeping J* M^ eS "__it of the associated dormitories are I____li2r\a-rfs, to which less than half tbe e ____ZLTt!_-ie fpare thought consistent with fkffih is allotted. The solitary day room back ward" is even more crowded This room is 20ft by ££_£wtoT_ite-o_the 29th, a rainy day, patients could not get out to the fL_-_T it contained thirty patients, packed on benches that they had not <£*£££ their elbows. AKhongh three friadows and the door were open, the atmosphere Wasdose and offensive, but the superintendent that it waa nothicg to what it usually jSHhTwet weather, when it is occupied by ihirfy-five patients and two attendants, and the windows have to be kept shut on aoconnt of the rtKsur»!_. winds. It is absurd to pretend that this place in its present condition has any claim to be considered au asylum. __ It would be an nodeserved compliment to call it a prison. It is not morally justifiable to continue week after week adding to the number of inmates, whaterer difficulty there may be of otherwise disoosing of tbe'inaane. It appears to mc necessary thata circular should be sent to all Resident Jfogisfcrates and acting Justices in tbe provincial district, informing them that no more mtiaits can ~be received into the asylum until the building has been enlarged or a reduction has by some means been effected in the number now resident. Unless rome such step aa this betaken, it seems certain that some dreadful catastrophe will happen. It cannot be too distinctly stated that the asylum is already in a 4__gerous and unmanageable condition, though the patients are described as quiet and orderly. An addition to tbe asylum capable of accommodating -00 patients is recommended.