The eighteenth annual report of the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bracebridge, near Lincoln.

  • Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum at Bracebridge
Date:
1871
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Credit: The eighteenth annual report of the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bracebridge, near Lincoln. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Attendance at Chapel. Assistant Medical Officer. Officers, Attendants, and Servants. Weekly-rate. Statistics and Accounts. be extended. The Commissioners in Lunacy pointed this out at their last inspection of the Asylum, and recommended that a building or room be provided for upholstery work, in which beds might be made and repaired, and other useful work, such as mat-making, carried on. A plan and estimate for building such a room is now awaiting the consideration of the Visitors. The Sunday services in the chapel were regularly attended by about 300 Patients, who have shown by their remarkable propriety of demeanour, and their de¬ vout manner of joining-in the responses and singing, that the wholesome influences of religion can be main¬ tained even in those who through mental infirmity are incapable of performing the ordinary duties of social life. The resignation of Dr. W. Douglas in November last to accept the office of Deputy Superintendent of the Criminal Asylum at Broadmoor, left vacant that of Assistant Medical Officer in this institution. He had been connected with the Asylum upwards of five years, and was an affable and agreeable colleague, as well as an able and zealous officer. The appointment has been filled by Mr. J. W. Marsh, who brings to his duties a sound medical education and large hospital experience. The Superintendent has continued to receive the best aid from the official staff, and also from the body of attendants and servants, who, with very few exceptions, have exhibited a commendable and faithful attention to their duties. The weekly cost per head for maintenance was 8s. 6fd., being 2fd. less than in 1869, and 10-^-d. less than the general average rate in English County Asy¬ lums. The usual Statistical and other Tables, together with the Abstract of Accounts for the year furnished by the Clerk of the Asylum, are appended to this Report.
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