Eighteenth report of the directors of the Dundee Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending 31st May, 1838.

  • Dundee Lunatic Asylum.
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[1838?]
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Credit: Eighteenth report of the directors of the Dundee Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending 31st May, 1838. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the faculties, and rendered torpid all our energies, are now exchanged for the employments of social life; and the heart once sunk in the gloom of religious melancholy, is now gladdened by the sound of praise and the tidings of salvation. In former Reports the different occupations of the pati¬ ents have been particularly detailed, and the same variety of employment has been pursued during the year to which this Report refers, with the same beneficial results ; and the Directors, from farther experience, are confirmed in the conviction, that while these occupations afford a consider¬ able addition to the annual income, and thus diffuse more widely the benefits of the Institution, they are likewise a re¬ medial measure of the first importance, essentialiypromoting the health and comfort of the patients. Farther explanation on this point is unnecessary, as the following Table will shew* the number of male and female patients employed and the variety of their occupations. Males. Females. Total. Weaving linen for sheeting, cotton bagging,&c. 13 5 18 Picking oakum, .... 5 0 5 Tailoring and mat-making, . 1 0 1 Cutting firewood, 1 0 1 Mangling clothes, Pumping water for the use of the establish- 1 0 1 ment, • • • • • Breaking metal for the turnpike road, and] 2 0 2 gardening, trenching, and laying out > ground, . . . . J 21 0 21 Domestic purposes, 1 0 1 Shoemaking and mending, 2 0 2 Cabinetmakers, 1 0 1 Clerks, . . : 1 0 1 Dressmaking, .... 0 3 3 Shoe-binding, .... 0 1 1 ! Spinning, ..... 0 11 li Winding for weavers, . 0 6 6 Knitting. ..... 0 1 1 Shirtmaking, .... 0 2 2 Quiltmaking, .... 0 1 1 Upholsterers’ work, 0 2 2 Staymaking, .... 0 1 1 Flowering muslins, 0 1 1 Fringe-making, .... 0 1 1 Repairing bedding and clothes, . 0 4 4 Worsted works, . ... 0 3 3 Assisting in laundry, 0 1 1 . ,, in scullery, 0 1 1 ,, in kitchen, 0 1 1 ,, in bed-rooms . 0 2 2 Total, 49 47 96