The twenty third annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1871.

  • North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum
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[1872]
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Credit: The twenty third annual report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year 1871. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE CHAPLAIN’S REPORT. TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE NORTH WALES COUNTIES ASYLUM. Gentlemen, The usual Sunday and week day Services have been performed regularly during the past year, and I am glad to be able to add that the same degree of attention and reverence, which I have remarked upon in my last report, still prevails. I can confidently say that, to very many, our Services are a source of comfort; often has this assertion been made to me in course of conversation with the patients, and I have reason to know that they are disappointed when unable to attend Chapel through indisposition. Strangers who attend our Chapel Services for the first time are much struck with the orderly conduct and devout appearance of the congregation, as well as with the solemnity and depth of feeling with which many of the affiicted inmates join in the different parts of divine worship. It has been found by experience that incurable patients, who have been goaded by neglect and active cruelty into a worse than savage condition before they are brought into a public asylum, can, by kind and judicious treatment, be so trained as to be in their best moments, tidy in their persons, and orderly in their behaviour; and the bringing of such inmates as these to Chapel, serves, if it does nothing else, to foster in them habits of self-control and decent conduct. During my week-day visits to the wards it has been my constant endeavour to speak such words of comfort to the afflicted as their several cases seemec^to require. In ministering to the sick and dying during the past year, I have had occasion to observe, with much thankfulness and satisfaction, the consoling and sustaining influence of religion upon the minds of the afflicted sufferers. Of all the cases that come under my notice, those who consider themselves lost are the most difficult to deal with; but notwithstanding their rejection of the glad tidings, which it is the privilege of a Christian minister to convey to them, I follow up my visits, and wait patiently for the result, trusting that as the patient improves in general health, so his mind will become more capable of receiving divine truth. It has been my happiness on many occasions during the past year to be made the medium of communication between patients and their friends, and there is reason to believe that comfort and satisfaction has often been derived
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