Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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26th April 1781 - 12th July 1792

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Image 142 of 51430th April 1783


Continued Wednesday 30th. April 1783

Certificates of the Patients legal Parish Settlement
are Prepared it then becomes necessary to Procure a
Governors Recommendation. The Hospital also requires
that upon Admission two Housekeepers residing in or
near London shall Enter into a Bond to take the Patient
away when discharged by the Committee and Pay the
Expence of Cloaths and of Barial in Case of drath If the
Lunatic is sent by a Parish or any other Public Body
the Sum of £3..4s is paid for Bedding but if the
unhappy Object is placed there by Friends the Hospital
anxious to lighten their burthen reduces the Sum to
£2..5s..6d. It is expected that the Patient shod.
be supplied with Cloathing in failure of this supply
the Hospital Provides proper Garments at the lowest Rate
and the Bendsmen repay the Expence.

There is no Particular Time limited for the
Continuance of a Patient in the Hospital who is under
Cure It is Generally seen in a Twelve month whether




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