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Precautions against Fire in Lunatic Asylums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

James C. Howden*
Affiliation:
Royal Lunatic Asylum, Montrose

Extract

The importance of the subject which I propose for discussion is such that I need make no apology for bringing it under your notice. Fire, always a dreaded calamity, becomes complicated with many additional horrors when it breaks out in an asylum for the insane. The crowding under one roof of a mass of human beings, most of whom are incapable of acting for themselves, the locked doors, the secured windows, the often insufficient means of egress, are conditions which render a conflagration an exceptionally appalling calamity.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1884 

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References

* I have frequently observed fire plugs so close to the building as to be quite unworkable in the event of an extensive conflagration. Google Scholar

One of the best of these couplings is Morris s patent. Google Scholar

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