Sixth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1838.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
Date:
1839
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Credit: Sixth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1838. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    let all of human energy and alertness be instantaneously put forth to rescue the scene from total and remediless desolation. The Trustees herewith submit the annual report of the Treasurer of the Hospital, from which it will be seen that its pecuniary concerns are in as favorable a condition as ever before. Since the enlargement of the institution, the duties of this officer have greatly increased. They have always been performed with the most exact and conscien¬ tious fidelity. The report of the Superintendent, also, accompanies this. It is a document of extraordinary interest and value. While the Trustees would make honorable mention of all persons filling subordinate sta¬ tions at the institution; they would ascribe its unexampled prosperity, to the assiduity and the skill, the talent and the benevolence of its pre¬ siding- officer. To supply the vacancy, which annually occurs, in consequence of the law that forbids an immediate reappointment of the senior mem¬ ber of the Board, the Hon. Edward D. Bangs, was commissioned as one of its members, at the commencement of the current year. That gentleman had attended a meeting for the organization of the Board and had made one or two of the monthly visitations of the Hospital, when, in March last, he was suddenly removed by death. It would be in vain for the Trustees, by any passing encomium of theirs, in this place, to attempt to add any thing to the reputation of a man, so uni¬ versally known, as was Mr Bangs, and so highly respected by all who knew him. But without recurring to the excellence of his character in private life, or to those offices of dignity and of trust, which he so long, so ably and so acceptably filled; the Trustees cannot refrain from recording, in this place, the expression of their deep regret, that this institution should have lost a friend, who was so eminently quali¬ fied, by his knowledge of affairs and by his lively sympathy for the unfortunate, to advance its prosperity, and to obtain in its behalf the favorable regards of the public. HORACE MANN, STEPHEN SALISBURY, ABRAHAM R. THOMPSON, MYRON LAWRENCE, WILLIAM LINCOLN. Worcester, Dec. 31 st7 1838
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