Thirty-fourth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1887
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Thirty-fourth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hundred men and 362 women go beyond the boundaries. Many of the more violent men are employed on the land, without tools, in levelling and laying out the grounds round the Annexe, and De. Cooxe assures us with marked improvement in their physical health and mental con¬ dition. The water 1 supply and sewage arrangements seem to be satisfactory; the Asylum bakes its ovm bread and brews its beer. We visited all the offices; also the Chapel. The Chapel has been erected at a most moderate cost, can seat 720 patients, and has a good organ and an east window of excellent design ; the former through sub¬ scription, the latter by a gift. We were gratified to hear that the Committee here not only visit the wards frequently, but give to every patient an opportunity of then bringing forward any grievance, ticking off the name of each patient on the list, so that he or she hns that face-tu-face interview with a magis¬ trate, which contents so many. The visitors to patients here seem numerous. We hear that visiting days are twice a week, and that the average number on each day ranges from 50 to 60. There has been no resort to mechanical restraint. Sixteen men have been secluded on 104 occasions in the aggregate for a total period of 957 hours, and 15 women on 50 occasions for 247 hours. The case books are well kept, and all the duties of the Medical Superintendent and his assistant officers appear to be conscientiously discharged. CHARLES PALMER PHILLIPS, ] Lunacy W. RHYS WILLIAMS, j Commissioners.