Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the counties of Bedford, Hertford, & Huntingdon, called "The Three Counties' Asylum," for the year ending the 31st of December, 1860 : with appendices.
- Three Counties' Asylum (Arlesey, England)
- Date:
- 1861
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the counties of Bedford, Hertford, & Huntingdon, called "The Three Counties' Asylum," for the year ending the 31st of December, 1860 : with appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![APPENDIX [B] REPORT OF THE CHAPLAIN. To the Committee of Visitors of the Three Counties Asylum. Gentlemen, I have the honor to lay before you the first report of my duties, as Chaplain to the Three Counties Asylum; and I feel a pleasure in doing so, because it affords me an opportunity of testifying to the spirit in which those duties have been received. I would report first of the services in the Chapel. These have been maintained strictly both on Sundays and other days, according to the tenor of instructions received from you. Nothing can exceed not only the good behaviour of the Patients during these services, but also the real devo¬ tional spirit, with which they engage in them. Their attendance (which I have noted below) has been steadily upon the increase; and the good effect, which these services have upon most of them, is evidenced in many ways—by their expressions of gratitude for the privilege of God’s worship, and by their re¬ membrance of lessons which I have been permitted to teach them. The Holy Communion has been administered 5 times between April and December. The annexed table will shew the steady increase in the number of Recipients. Some few of these have never been Communicants before their coming amongst us. The joy and readiness, with which all wrho are able to participate, hail each recurring celebration, is an earnest that they enter upon this sacred ordinance with a due apprecia- of its benefits. My Afternoon on Sunday is occupied with a School for the benefit of the Attendants’ children. Many of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30303175_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
