Twenty-fifth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1862.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum.
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[1862]
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Credit: Twenty-fifth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1862. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had been but too long delayed. It would not have been possible to have engaged with any satisfaction in such a work as this without the directions and inspection of an architect; and the Superintendent’s friend Mr. Hayward has supplied a great many minute drawings, and supervised the building in its progress. For these drafts and this labour, I am desired by Mr. Hayward to say, that he makes no charge. The selected site of the chapel has been the source of much commendation from all whose judgment is correct. The Commissioners in Lunacy thought well of it, and expressed officially their satisfaction at the extended walk to it on the female side, which the boundary path will afford in fine weather. The chapel is placed just outside the old cemetery ground, now domestically consecrated by the inter¬ ment of one who identified herself with every want, sorrowed in every sorrow, and rejoiced in every joy, of those to whom she devoted her life-long energies. Her sorrowing survivor only solicits the painful gratification of being allowed to supply a light of hallowed memory, which may fall on the devotion of the insane worshippers, by a memorial window at his own expense. It now only remains that I should throw myself upon the further indulgence of the visitors, with the full conviction that time is rather to be reckoned by services than by years. I could wish those services presented a better account; and the only reference that I would make to them now has special regard to that support which I feel to be more than ordinarily needed. Independently of those petty perplexities wdiich are constantly occurring, and which cannot promote the real welfare of the patients, while they create a rest¬ lessness in the Superintendent’s mind; responsibilities are increased to an extent unknown to those who have not constant communication with official authorities: and it is quite possible (though we have too much happy confidence to