Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester

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Excerpt from Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester: October 1865 A few improvements have been made during the year past, such as a hospital ward in each wing of the building to separate the sick and feeble from their more active and boisterous com panions but others have been suggested that our limited means forbid us to attempt. We wish to introduce some system 'of useful labor to keep the patients occupied with work, that will quiet the restless energy of some, and stimulate the listless apathy of others. This is partially done for the women in the laundry and sewing rooms, and in a much smaller degree for the men, by employ ment in work upon the farm in summer. Some simple but useful manual labor, suited to the ability and the taste of each one, that can be had in winter as well as in summer, is much needed. In England, as will be seen in a report made by Dr. Jarvis, in 1863, very favorable results have followed the introduction of such work, proving useful, not only to the patients themselves, but a source of considerable revenue to the) hospitals. Another want sadly felt is, some intermediate temporary residence for patients not fit for discharge, nor proper subjects for an insane ward a place where can be tested their ability to live free from the actual restraints of the hospital before going to their homes and into the busy world. As was said in our last Report, some of our patients are occupied in various employments in the town, who return to the shelter of the hospital at night, not having confidence in their ability to leave its protecting in¿uence altogether. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.