Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1851 / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1852?]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors for 1851 / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    solation, either by conversation or prayer. And others were in their last illness, so totally deprived of the little reason they had previously possessed, as to render my visits perfectly useless. The orderly and apparently attentive behaviour of the Patients in Chapel, (which has been invariably remarked by strangers who have attended the Services;) is, no doubt, in a great measure attributable to the fact, of the more sane and composed Patients being selected to form the Congregation; but still I feel certain that it also proceeds in a very great measure from a knowledge of the meaning of the assembling, and from early associations. Of those who generally attend Chapel, many are induced to do so from much higher motives, and more rational views than mere custom. Having so much intercourse with them, I can speak from my own personal knowledge, that very many of the Patients attend as an act of religious duty, and are never absent excepting on account of illness. That great comfort is afforded to the Patients, by their having the opportunity of joining Divine Worship regularly, the following instance, (out of many that have occurred to me,) will be sufficient to prove:— A. S., who has been servant in several families of distinction, has frequently told me that nothing but religion, and his constant attendance at Chapel, could support him under his present affliction, and altered circumstances. It is satisfactory for me to be able to state, that the Patients who have been discharged in the course of the year, as cured, were particularly
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