Twenty-first annual report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton : October, 1876.

  • State Lunatic Hospital (Northampton, Mass.)
Date:
1877
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Credit: Twenty-first annual report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton : October, 1876. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. Exercises on Secular Evenings—con.,— c. Other entertainments: Pictures shown by oxyhydrogen lantern, Concerts of vocal music, Concerts of instrumental music, Theatrical exhibitions, . Recitations, ...... cl. Social gatherings: Quadrille parties, . Exercise not recorded, . No assembly, . 6 days. 3 “ 3 “ 2 “ 1 44 19 44 1 44 40 44 Total, 366 days. As appears by this record, the patients were assembled, for some purpose, upon 326 of the 366 days in the year. Upon 21 of the 40 exceptional days, the assembly was omitted for the purpose of painting the furniture of the chapel, the walls of which were painted in the next preceding year. There were likewise no assemblies on the evenings of the day of the annual visit of the Board of State Charities, and the thirteen days of the meetings of the Board of Trustees. Too many good things at once may be as objectionable as too few. The accounts of this part of the operations of the hospital have been so elaborate and detailed in preceding reports, and our opinion in regard to their utility so fully expressed, that it is deemed unnecessary, at this time, to enlarge upon the subject, further than to acknowledge the indebtedness of the audience to the parties from whom several of the entertain¬ ments were received : To Professor Carhart, formerly of Wil- braham, but now at the University of Indiana, for three of the readings of prose and poetry. To Dr. Meekins, for the exhibitions of pictures with the oxyhydrogen light. To the Amphion Sextette Club of Amherst College, the Misses Col¬ ton of Easthampton, and a quartette club of Northampton, each, respectively, for a concert of vocal music. To the P. Q. R. S. T. Club of Northampton, for the dramatic enter¬ tainments ; and to the Assistant Physician, Dr. Garlick, who introduced the stay-at-home travellers to the marvels of the Centennial Exhibition, without the fatigue experienced by the actual observer.
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