Reports for the year 1866 / St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics.

  • Saint Luke's Hospital for Lunatics (London, England)
Date:
[1867]
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Credit: Reports for the year 1866 / St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and are less in number than in 1865 ; as usual several of these were in almost a dying state on admission. On the first of January of the present year there were on the Hospital books on the Curable List 19 males and 34 females, inclusive of one male and one female absent on trial; and on the Boarders List, 30 males and 44 females. In the month of July the Commissioners in Lunacy made their Annual Statutory visit, and have recorded at length in the Visitors7 Book, the satisfactory state in which they found the Hospital. They suggest that more furniture be placed in the Wings, a suggestion which we hope the Committee will carry out. There have been no Statutory additions to, or alterations made in the Lunacy Laws affecting this Hospital. To the Governors It will be especially gratifying to learn that five-sixths of the Patients are more or less usefully occupied in various empjoyments, not so much with the view of making such employment remunerative to the Hospital, as with the object of engaging the Patients7 attention, and improving their general health, by moderate bodily and mental exercise. We cannot but be aware that the employment of Patients in out of door occupations, such as gardening, is not so practicable in the metropolis as in the country, but we feel certain that the Com¬ mittee must regard with satisfaction any successful means used for the recovery of the Patients. We are, therefore, glad to be able to inform them that some of the Patients are engaged in gardening in the Hospital grounds, and we would venture to call attention to the circumstance, that a better green-house would materially increase their interest in such occupation, as well as adorn, by its produce, the grounds and the Hospital. The Senate of the University of London has been pleased to signify its willingness to receive the certificates granted by us for attendance on the medical practice of this Hospital, for the purposes of graduation in Medicine-in the University. Your Physicians and Medical Superintendent cannot conclude their Report, without remarking on the loss the Hospital has