Appointment of Medical Superintendent to the Bedfordshire County Asylum

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We are delighted to learn that, since the issue of our last number, the Visiting Justices of the Bedfordshire County Asylum have reconsidered the conditions of this appointment. They advertized for candidates, offering the paltry salary of £100 per annum. They have elected a gentleman at a salary of £800 per annum, with board, etc., for himself and his family. They have, moreover, elected the medical officer of an institution containing one thousand patients, and wherein. “no hand or foot has been bound, by night or by day,” for the last fifteen years. The election of Mr. Denne is honorable to the Visiting Justices, as a proof of the readiness with which they can retrace their steps when they discover they are not in the right path.