Continued Wednesday 30th. April 1783.

given him and it is strictly enjoined that a Patient shall
never be struck except in Case of Self Defence. Indeed it is
Notorious that the Members of this Family are regarded with
that Lenity which their situation Claims If the known humanity
and Attention of the Officers of the House were not itself a
sufficient Security for their being well treated the frequent
Inspection which the Hospital Undergoes from a large Proportion
of the Governors who at different Times serve upon the Bethlem
Committee wod. once Invalidate the Suspicion that has been
mentioned In short such is the Comportable Subsistence kind
treatment and able Medical And which the Patients here
meet with that many who are intimately Acquainted with the
Conduct of the House have declared that ever. God should be
pleased to Visit them with Insanity Bethlem Hospital
is the Place where they would wish to be admitted.

The Admission of Patients into Bethlem Hospital is
Attended with very little Difficulty. It is first necessary to
Consider whether the Case of the supposed Lunatic Includes any
of those Circumstances which the Prudence of the Hospital regards
as Objections to Admission. These are fees in Number and
the Wisdom and Propriety of them will be easily allowed
Mosses Persons afflicted with the Palsy or Subject to
Convulsise or Epileptic fils and such are become weak thro Age
or long Illness are excluded Objects of this Description It is presumed may be
sufficiently protected and secured by their Ficonds or in a
Parish Workhouse. It is peculiarly deserving Notice that no
Person is considered as disqualified for admission here who
may have been discharged anavi'd from any other Lunatic
Hospital When the Friends of a Lunatic are satisfied that he
is a proper Object of the Charity and the Petition and