Twenty-seventh annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1880
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Credit: Twenty-seventh annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are not of themselves capable of providing the Asylum with sufficient water. It is supposed that if the second set of pumps in the brook-water well be fixed, the amount of filtered water supplied to the Asylum from day to day might be increased two or three-fold. In no former year has your Superintendent been more indebted for hearty co-operation to the various Officers of the Asylum Staff, and much of the benefit to the patients, and the good results of the year, are due to their energy, zeal, and ability, and their ready compliance with any suggestions for the improvement of our system. The attendants and servants, more especially the older ones, deserve my warmest acknowledgments for their good service. Your Superintendent feels grateful that he continues to he supported by your advice and assistance at all times, and that in his management and superintendence of the Asylum, he retains your confidence, which greatly reduces the burden of weighty responsibility, and nerves him for further exertions. JAMES SHERLOCK, M.D., Superintendent and Medical Officer. WORCESTER: Printed by Knight and Porter, Chronicle Ofeice, The Avenue, Cross.
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