Twentieth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1873
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Credit: Twentieth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10 At eight o’clock in the morning of all days, except Sundays and Wed¬ nesdays and the special occasions named, I have read in the Recreation Room a portion of Holy Scripture, commonly that appointed in the New Table of Lessons, and a selection from Morning Prayer, always com¬ mencing these family devotions with a hymn. The number attending these and other services is highly satisfactory, and the admirable manner in which the Choir has rendered the hymns, chants, and responses generally has much pleased me; the patients also seem on the whole to join heartily in the entire services, and the remarks they frequently make to me prove they have not been inattentive listeners. I have visited all the occupied wards three times a week, and both hospitals every day. My usual system has been in the hospitals to read a passage from the Bible and pray with the sick, sometimes reading from the Book of Common Prayer, at others extemporaneously: on some occasions in the day rooms, on others in the general sick rooms and single rooms, and sometimes in all on the same day, being guided entirely by circumstances either of urgency or domestic importance. I have also ministered to the occasional sick in the other Wards in the same way; in all places I have been welcomed, and in not a few cases have I found earnest and devout participators in such worship. At times, when I have found few patients in the Wards, I have gone out into the Airing Courts to them, and have occasionally visited also the Laundry and the Workshops. I have also had access to the Library, and from time to time lent out books to the patients, and have distributed Bibles, Hymn Books, and Prayer Books to the Wards, as the attendants suggested the particular wants. On the 9th ultimo, I received from the Secretary of the S.P.C.K. information that the Society had made our Asylum a grant of books. I accepted the offer by letter to the Secretary, but to this time have not received them, or been advised of their delivery. I am, my Lord and Gentlemen, Faithfully your obedient Servant, ALFRED BOND, Chaplain. Powick, December 18th, 1872.
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