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INST RUTIONS for the ADMISS1O4 of PATIENTS
into BETHLEM- HOSPITAL
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ALL Lontticwho hvè t been. disordered ti\br than one Wear
before Admission, and who have not been in any Hospital before, may be
admitted at all Seasons, and remain tiltS, cured,i provided the same be
effected within Twelve Months; and all such as have been longer than
that Time, may be admitted (at the Discretion tt tbc,,cotnmittee) from
1..ady-day to Michaelmas only, when they are to be discharged, unless
there be then a Prospect of Cure.
According to the Regulations of the Hospital, Persons in the undernientioiied
Situations cannot be admitted, viz. Women with Child; .a
Persons afflicted with the Palsy, Convulsive or Epileptic Fits; sucb'as have
become weak through Age or long Illness, Mopes, and Ideots; those who
are blind, or so lame that they are obliged to use a crutch or wooden leg;
and such as are infrcted with the Venereal Disease or Itch.
The Petition which accompanies these Instructions must be vArruFuu.Y
filled up, according to the Directions contained in the Margin of it, and
signed either b y the Parish Officers, or by such Relation or Friend as may
apply on the Patient's Behalf.
The Certificate of Settlement must also be signed and SEALED by the
Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish where the
Patient's Settlement is, in the Presence of Two Witnesses, who must sign
the Attestation thereof, and add their Residences, and One of them must
then muk.- Onti, ,,( th.-... £ascutothereoLhefore,.Twdjustices.of
the Peace for the County or Place, who are to allow the same under their
hands, according to the Forms on the third side of this Sheet.
The Certificate of Insanity must be signed by some Physician, Surgeon,
or Apothecary, (who has visited the Patient) in Presence of the same Two
Witnesses, who must sign the Attestation thereot and add their Residences
pursuant to the Form on the third Side, and One of them must also
make Oath to the same, before the two Justices of the Peace.
When the Petition and Certificates are returned, they will be laid before
the Committee at Bethiem Hospital. who sit there only on Thursday Mornings
at Ten o'Clock, and who will make an Order as soon as there 'is a
Vacancy. for the Patient to be brought to be viewed and examined by
them and the Physician. and to be then admitted, if a proper Object.
But the Patient must not be brought up, till such an Order is made.—
And one week before the Time appointed for the Examination, there must
be left in the Lodge of Bridewell Hospital, Blackfnars, a Note of the
Names of Two Housekeepers, in London or the Suburbs, who must be
present at Bethiem Hospital, at o'Clock in the Morning precisely
when the Patient is to be admitted,and enter intoaBondofClOO, to pay
for Clothes, during the Patient's Continuance in the Hospital. and to take
Him or Heraway when discharged by theCommittee; and to pay the
Charge of Burial. if the Patient dies in the HospitaL—Patients not sent
by Parishes or Public Bodies are admitted fees, but those sent by Parishes
or Public Bodiespay3. 3.0. each on Mniissson.
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It is absolutely necezy that some Person should attend with tl)e Patient,
who can give an account of the Case. ' '
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N. B. No Goveracr, Oficer, r &raulIS V As Bospite4 nsa k Secvnty /.r
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Appendix 6R Instructions for the Admission of patients
to Bethiem, c1816 (held at BRHA)