Eighteenth annual report, 1882 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum.
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Eighteenth annual report, 1882 / Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ no newspapers were in the patients’ reach, or in their hands, even on the male side.” Divine Service is held here once only on Sundays, and there is none held during the week. The Chaplain, however, visits the wards one day a wTeek. The religious exercise and instruction here cannot be considered excessive; about 80 patients of each sex attend church, and about 70 of each the associated amuse¬ ments. The like number walk in the grounds daily, and 40 of each sex are taken each week into the country. Over 80 men and about 100 women are usefully employed, but only 8 men are engaged in the shops, whilst 50 of the women knit and sew. The Swede whose case was specially noticed in the last entry is still here. He has relapsed, and is not now fit to leave the Asylum. The behaviour of the patients during our visit was orderly; their dress was for the most part tidy, and they appeared to receive due care and attention from those entrusted with the charge of them, and Mr. Wickham evidently is well acquainted with their cases, and gave us all the information we required respecting them. W. E. FBERE, ] Commissioners ROBERT HAIRNE, / in Lunacy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3030135x_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
