The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylum, Forston, for the year 1859.

  • Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Forston, England)
Date:
1860
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Credit: The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylum, Forston, for the year 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Christian man’s day of rest the better. 1 believe the service should be performed in every respect as if the whole con¬ gregation were sane—and it must not be forgotten that very many of those attending are officers and servants ; many of the patients, too, are acutely alive to the beauties of the Services of our Church, and therefore thoroughly enjoy them. These are additional reasons why I had earnestly hoped that in our new building the chapel had been distinct and separate; it seems so much nicer u to go to church,” and I believe also a feeling of greater respect, &c., would have been kindled amongst us. I have great reason for being very thankful to the Com¬ mittee for allowing me a separate room wholly for Divine Service; and when completed, I feel sure will be a comfort to and enjoyed by us all. As the subject of the new Asylum has been fully con¬ sidered and settled, it would ill become me to make any further remark than to wish most earnestly for its com¬ pletion, and that it may thoroughly and effectually tend to the comfort and relief of those who must eventually inhabit it. There can be no doubt as to the healthiness of the new site, the prospect is much more extensive; the supply of water, in all probability, abundant—being supplied from the same river as we have now; the soil good, the subsoil chalk and gravel, and the greater part of the land is grass and fit for pasturage for cows. It will be cold in the winter from its high and somewhat exposed situation ; but the internal domestic comfort must counterbalance that, and being exposed to the sun nearly the whole of the day, whatever warmth, comfort, and cheerfulness, from this source can be got, will certainly be enjoyed by the inmates of the new building. The conduct of the attendants and servants during the
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