Sussex County Lunatic Asylum Haywards' Heath : I. - Account of the construction of the Asylum, and the early proceedings connected therewith. II. - Second Annual Reports, 1860.

  • Sussex County Lunatic Asylum. Haywards Heath.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Sussex County Lunatic Asylum Haywards' Heath : I. - Account of the construction of the Asylum, and the early proceedings connected therewith. II. - Second Annual Reports, 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18/66 (page 14)
    Improved Condition of the Patients removed I'0711 liondon Tlie g:eneral Ol der of the House. EmTdovmcnt ot ilie raients. 14 I A very marked improvement has taken placq in the general health and conduct of the patients (many cases of long standing mental disease) removed from London. The invi- gorating influence of the pure air and water of Hayward’s Heath has given light and colour to many who on admission presented a worn and debilitated appearance ; while the order and discipline of the Lstablishment have reduced into harmony and good conduct some of the most, violent and unpromising cases of insa’.iity which the. Medical Supeiin- tendent ever met with in practice. The beauty also of the site of the Asylum, looking out on the free downs, which arc ever changing their distance and their shape, as the lights and cloud-shadows sail over them, and over the graceful forms of whose endless variety of slopes the eye wanders imariested by abrujDtness, with an embracing feeling of fulness and a restful satisfaction to the pure sense of Form,^' has not been without its calming influence on many of the Patients, and has, in several instances, been the subject of their conversation with the Medical Superintendent at his visit to the Wards. The House is already'’ in good working order; each duty and requirement of the day have their appointed hour and agent, and the means best fitted for the curative employment of the Patients are in daily operation. The cleaning of the Wards, on both sides of the House, is performed by them, and all the domestic labour of a large household is entrusted to some of them. The Male Patients * See Lectures and Addresses by the late llev. Frederick William Robertson, M.A., of Brighton.