The reports of the County Lunatic Asylums at Lancaster, Rainhill, & Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 7th of January 1857 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the respective treasurers of the said asylums.

  • Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1857
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Credit: The reports of the County Lunatic Asylums at Lancaster, Rainhill, & Prestwich : presented to the Court of Adjourned Annual Session held on the 7th of January 1857 with the accounts of the receipts and payments of the respective treasurers of the said asylums. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Out-door employment has been abundant during the past year, both in the ornamental parts of the grounds, and in the kitchen gardens. A large portion of the land behind the outbuildings has only recently been brought into garden cultivation, and the supply of fresh vegetables has, consequently, been much more abundant than formerly. This is more especially alluded to, as a liberal supply of these has been found both grateful and beneficial to the patients. Having, on former occasions, alluded in terms of commendation to the general conduct of the attendants, it is with great satisfaction that those opinions can be fully confirmed during the past year ; and it is highly gratifying to record an increasing desire on the part of the attendants, not only to discharge their respective duties as servants, but to promote, as far as in them lies, the general interests; of the institution by cheerfully supporting all the directions of the officers of the establishment. E. D. DE VITRE, M.D., Visiting Physician. JOHN BROADHURST, Surgeon and Superintendent. County Asylum, Lancaster, March 3rd, 1857.