Twelfth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1844.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester.
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1844
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Credit: Twelfth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1844. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE STATE LUNATIC HOSPITAL. DECEMBER, 1844. To His Excellency George N, Briggs, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and to the Honorable Council: The State Lunatic Hospital having nearly completed the twelfth year of its successful operation, the Trustees respectfully present this, their Twelfth Annual REPORT: The Hospital, during the past year, has been more crowded with patients, and its operations generally have been more successful and beneficial, than in any former year. The smallest number of patients at any time during the year has been two hundred and fifty-three. The largest number two hundred and seventy-three. The average number has been two hundred and sixty-one. The number of attendants, in¬ cluding the Superintendent and his family, the Chaplain, Steward, &c., is about fifty-five, making upwards of three hundred persons as the average number under the same roof. By resolves of March 24th, 1843, the Trustees, Superintendent and Treasurer “ were authorized so to enlarge the Hospital as to accommo¬ date one hundred and fifty more patients, together with all the neces¬ sary furniture and other accommodations for the same. Under these resolves the Trustees, as stated in our last report, together with the other gentlemen, erected, just at the close of the last year, the Johonnot Hall, consisting chiefly of two large rooms, and extending from the rear of the centre building to the chapel. These large rooms were much needed, as all our other rooms are small. Experience, since