The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year ending December 31st, 1884.

  • Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Charminster, England)
Date:
1885
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Credit: The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year ending December 31st, 1884. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPLAIN’S REPORT. rpHE Chaplain has the honour of submitting his Report for the year just closed. Divine Service has been conducted as usual on Sundays and Weekdays throughout the year in the Chapels of the two Asylums. A short form of morning prayer has been read daily at Forston at 8.30. On Sundays, morning and evening service with a sermon has been read at Forston and, at the new Asylum —alternately, morning and evening at each. On Wednesdays there has been an evening service with a sermon, weekly, at the new Asylum. And on Thursday evenings a similar service has been held at the Forston Asylum. The new Hymnal, which was introduced a few weeks back, is much liked by the congregation ; the bright and stirring tunes to which many of the hymns are set, have helped to add much heartiness to the musical portion of the service. The Holy Communion which has been celebrated monthly, has been but poorly attended, the number presenting themselves, being usually 12 or 13 at the new Asylum; and 5 or 6 at Forston. The wards have been regularly visited by the Chaplain, and the Holy Scriptures and other books read to those who were disposed to listen; and the sick have been visited from time to time. During the past twelvemonth nineteen burials have taken place in the Asylum Cemetery. F. C. CAR DEW, Chaplain. January, 1885.