Fifth annual report for 1863 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Hayward's Heath.
- Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
- Date:
- [1864?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Fifth annual report for 1863 / Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Hayward's Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and could not justly be compared with similar results in County Asylums, free from these chance-disturbing elements of a large discharge of Patients relieved and a reduction in the admissions by the temporary closing of the Female Wards. Great additions have (at the suggestion of the Commis- state of the w aras. sioners) been made to the furnishing of the Wards, by placing in them small articles of furniture, pictures, plants, birds, &c., &c. The Medical Superintendent has observed the same rule with all the Wards, including the so-called Kefractory, and the most unqualified success has followed the experiment. In no single instance has any picture, plant, or bird, been injured by the Patients. Pie also ventures to remind the Visitors of the improved condition of the Patients in Wards Nos. II. and VI., suffering under the chronic forms of the disease, as contrasted now with their state of violence and insubordination at the time of their transfer from the London Licensed Houses. It thus seems worthy of record here, that during the year 1863, only three panes of glass, in all, have been wilfully broken by the Patients. In the Peport of the Commissioners in Lunacy for 1863, the following valuable remarks occur on this subject, and which, the Medical Superintendent can from his experience at the Sussex Asylum most fully confirm :— “ Generally we have to record during the past year as to Public Extract from last Annual Report “ Asylums, an increased attention on the part of those responsible for of the Commis- “ the care of the Insane, to the necessity, not only of providing them Lunacy]11 “ with means for employment and recreation out of doors, but of sur- “ rounding them in their Wards with small comforts of domestic “furniture; making their dormitories more homelike by a trifling “ outlay on carpeting and curtains, and putting into their Galleries and “ Day-rooms pictures and objects of ornament of an inexpensive kind,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30319146_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
