Eleventh annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ended 31st December, 1881 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.

  • Moulsford Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1882?]
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Credit: Eleventh annual report of the Committee of Visitors, Medical Superintendent, and chaplain, with an account of receipts and expenditure, for the year ended 31st December, 1881 / Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    chaplain’s report. To the Committee of Visitors of the Moulsford Lunatic Asylum. Gentlemen, I have the pleasure of laying before you the Third Annual Keport of the work you have entrusted to me as Chaplain of this Institution. The Daily Services in the Morning in the Dining Hall, and the Morning and Evening Services on Sundays, have been regularly performed. The only alteration in the former is, that the portion of the Litany used on Wed¬ nesdays and Fridays, is now sung instead of said—a change which I believe has been appreciated by the Patients. I feel confident that the brighter and more musical the Services are, the more are they entered into and enjoyed by them. The attendance on Sunday has considerably increased ; the largest attendance in the Morning being this year 28], as compared with 236, and in the Evening 279, as contrasted with 226 of last year. The behaviour has been most devout. The Holy Communion has been administered every month ; the number of those who attend is slightly in excess of last vear. My journal, in which the particulars of my daily work and visits are regularly entered, will show you that the Wards have been visited by me, week by week, according to your regulations. Although these visits, amongst many of the same people, give little scope for variety in an Annual Keport, yet I trust I may say that my words of encouragement and of hope have done something to lighten the affliction of those committed to my charge. I can only repeat what it has been my pleasure to say in former years, that I have always been most kindly re¬ ceived in the Wards. E