Fifteenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1852.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1853
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Credit: Fifteenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1852. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This Asylum has now been opened for a quarter of a century; and the necessary alterations and changes of its earlier years, have gradually merged into the uniform pro¬ gression of its later improvements. There is now very little beyond the ordinary occurrences of so large an Establishment, requiring any special or exclusive notice; daily cares and demands upon attention there must always be, but they are met with the desire of daily preparation for particular emer¬ gencies as they arise, and the general determination to act under them in that spirit of thankfulness for the past, which is the most assured encouragement of hope for the future. There has been much indeed in the last year to call forth this feeling; the House has been healthy, quiet, and com¬ fortable, free from all those untoward circumstances which it is the happy privilege of increasing age to obviate. We have not passed generally a more undisturbed year since the open¬ ing of the Asylum: there has been hardly a trifling injury to record, not even a temporary escape ; and with scarcely a solitary exception it would be difficult to find a discontented inmate. Several patients who have left us this year, and from whom communications had been received, have signified their wish that through this official Report their thanks should be conveyed to the Committee.
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