Report for 1847 / Littlemore Asylum.

  • Littlemore Asylum
Date:
[1848?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report for 1847 / Littlemore Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. To the Committee of Visitors of the Littlemore Asylum. Gentlemen, I have the pleasure of presenting to you my second Report, which I trust you will deem a satisfactory one. Since I wrote the last, twelve months have elapsed, and consequently more opportunities of gaining experience in my peculiar kind of duties have been presented to me, which I hope I have taken advantage of for the benefit of the Patients generally. My public duties (if I may so use the expression for a private Chapel) have been performed with regularity and punctuality during the past year, and the conduct of the Patients when present is so orderly that several persons who have visited the Asylum, and attended the Service in Chapel, have expressed their astonishment at their quiet and attentive demeanor; and truly indeed it is a gratifying sight to see so many persons, so grievously afflicted, joining the Church Service with such apparent serious attention. The Sunday Services have been conducted in the same manner as stated in my last Report, viz., Prayers at eleven o’clock, and Prayers and a short Sermon at three o’clock. The Weekday Services are as follow : Communion Service on Mondays, Prayers selected from the Liturgy on Tuesdays, the Litany on Wednesdays and Fridays, and Prayers selected from the Liturgy on Thursdays and Saturdays. On Monday the 1st of March I commenced reading the Communion Service for the first time, substituting it for the Prayers which I had selected from the Liturgy. The following is an extract from my journal where I noticed it :—“ Monday, March 1st. As it is considered expedient that the Sunday Services should neither of them be extended beyond an hour, but rather under than otherwise, I have never read the Communion Service until this day, when I commenced doing so for the
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