Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Cardwell, Edward to Seymour, Governor Frederick 22 July 1865, NAC :, 209.
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Cardwell, Edward to Seymour, Governor Frederick 22 July 1865, NAC :, 209.
Despatch from London.
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No. 47
22 July 1865
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.
33 of the 24th of March, on the subject of the Hospitals and Lunatic
Asylum[s] in British Columbia.
I feel confident that you will continue to give your best attention
to the improvement of the Hospitals and of the system under which they
are managed, and that you will find means,if
if possible, of saving the
Lunatics, fortunately so few in number, from the alternative of either
being associated with criminals in the Prison, or of passing their time,
each one in separate and solitary confinement, a treatment which must in
many cases greatly aggravate their malady.
if possible, of saving the
Lunatics, fortunately so few in number, from the alternative of either
being associated with criminals in the Prison, or of passing their time,
each one in separate and solitary confinement, a treatment which must in
many cases greatly aggravate their malady.
I enclose for your consideration a Memorandum elicited by the
particulars with which you have furnished me on this subject.
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Memorandum, no date, on the conditions of asylums in British Columbia.