Twenty-eighth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the first of January to the end of the year 1875.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1876
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Twenty-eighth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the first of January to the end of the year 1875. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not what, just as they might set their hearts on a change of ward or diet. I have generally had a congregation, though a small one, at the Friday evening services for attendants during Advent and Lent. The average number attending Chapel has been :— Men. Women. Sundays. 135 119 Other Days. 110 92 The average number of Communicants ;—patients 4 ; others 5. The Alms have been J~3 9s. lOd. besides £i 15s. 6d. received at Christmas and sent to the Missionary Candidates’ Association. £3 has been given to patients leaving the Asylum. The school remains much the same, and is attended by the same kind of patients ; they are generally orderly, but, I fear understand little of the instruction which I try to give. The average number present has been Men, 17 ; Women 10. K. N. WOOD. Hor ring ton, January 10, 1876.