Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the Borough of Birmingham as presented to the Town Council, being their fifteenth annual report : together with the reports of the Medical Superintendent and Chaplain also an account of the receipts & payments to the end of the year 1865 / Birmingham Borough Lunatic Asylum.

  • Birmingham Borough Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1866
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the Borough of Birmingham as presented to the Town Council, being their fifteenth annual report : together with the reports of the Medical Superintendent and Chaplain also an account of the receipts & payments to the end of the year 1865 / Birmingham Borough Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hmxn^Rm 'QaxavtQfy 1/iuntilt CHAPLAIN’S REPORT. TO THE COMMITTEE OF VISITORS OF THE BOROUGH LUNATIC ASYLUM, BIRMINGHAM. Gentlemen, In presenting my eighth annual report as Chaplain to the Borough Lunatic Asylum, I desire to express my heartfelt thank¬ fulness that I have continued to receive during the past year the same grateful and kind recognition of my efforts for the moral and spiritual welfare of those committed to my charge, from both Officers and Inmates of the Institution. I have much happiness in reporting that the services in the Chapel are attended by large congregations of orderly and for the greater part devout worshippers, who enter with much depth of feeling into the various parts of religious worship. I have not found it desirable to make any change in the order of the services in the Chapel, the plan pursued for many years continues to be attended with success. I may briefly indicate their order, which is as follows :—on Sundays, Divine worship commences at Eleven a.m., and consists of the ordinary Morning Prayer, the singing of a hymn, and the delivery of an appropriate Sermon. On the Wednesday morning in each week Divine Service begins at half-past Eight, and consists of the Litany, the singing of a hymn,
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