Fourth annual report of the Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital, (situate near Cheadle, Cheshire,) for the year June, 1853, to June, 1854.

  • Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital
Date:
1854
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Credit: Fourth annual report of the Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital, (situate near Cheadle, Cheshire,) for the year June, 1853, to June, 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being those who have also most out-door occupation, their absence leaves the room free for the use of those who are in a more excited state. By this arrangement, all the patients have an opportunity of frequenting the room, and I have much satisfaction in recording, that no instance of rudeness or vio¬ lence has as yet occurred, but all has been conducted with order and decorum. Painting in oil and water colours continues to occupy a full share of the leisure hours. Some of the patients have been very industrious in these branches; while one has executed three large paintings in oil of Dunham Park, Bramal Hall, and Benlomond; another has presented us with various views in water colours, all of which are now suspended in frames on the walls of our galleries. Our library continues gradually to increase. Music, draw¬ ing, pic-nics, excursions, and shopping, continue as formerly, to afford a sufficient variety of amusement and recreation to interest and excite the great body of our patients. Carriage exercise is also given to all the patients regularly in rotation, two or three days of each week, while those who will be bene- fitted by it, or who are in a condition to require it, have it more frequently. The state of the ladies’ wards continue to afford the highest satisfaction ; continual occupation in all the various and more elegant forms of needlework, together with the supplying of new articles, and the repairs of others, render their wards a scene of busy, and home-like industry. Christmas and New Year’s Day were marked in our calen¬ dar as special occasions, and were passed with much enjoyment; the decoration of our rooms and galleries, for an entire week previously, was a source of cheerful occupation, and anticipated pleasure which was fully realized. Our singing birds and plants are the peculiar care of some of our inmates; and in no instance have any of them been in¬ terfered with or destroyed.
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