Sin,—The Commissioners in Lunacy direct me to thank yon for the letter in which you inform them that you have ohtained at Llandudno, in North M'aies, comfortable lodging accommodation for thirty-five patients belonging to the Northampton Lunatic Hospital, the governors of that institution having humanely resolved to give these poor persons the benefit of sea-air and a change of scene for a short period. The Commissioners observe the very proper precautions you have taken to prevent any possible irregularity or eccentricity on the part of any of the patients, by providing fifteen attendants to wait upon them during their stay at Llandndno, and they cannot regard as at all serious or likely to be persisted in such threatened opposition on the part of the Town Commissioners of Llandudno as you refer to in your letter. So long as the patients conduct themselves with propriety no pretence can possibly be urged for excluding them from what they are as fully entitled to as any other persons, and to the unrestricted enjoyment of which their affliction gives them a special and additional claim. The Commissioners may re mind you that a plan precisely similar to that which you have adopted was carried into effect by Dr. Dticknill a few years ago. He took from the Devon Asylum a party of forty-two patients (which he changed from time to time, always retaining that number) to Exmouth, and although some alarm was felt by the residents when the proposal was first made, no subsequent inconvenience was experienced; no individual underwent the remotest annoyance of any description ; and though the patients continued for several months to he taken out daily in parties for walks along the shore, they ceased in a few days to attract any attention, and their final departure was a subject of regret to the inhabitants.Google Scholar

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“To Dr. E. Wing.”Google Scholar