Eighth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Eighth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    advisable for me to make enquiries of other Asylum Chaplains as to their practice, or it might he proper to refer the question to the Bishop. The Committee are fully aware of the importance of providing a good class of Attendants for the Asylum; hut I would respectfully suggest that in the enquiries into character great stress should he laid on the religious principles of the candi¬ dates as far as is possible to ascertain them by testimony. Great power for good or evil must he in those who have the immediate charge of the Patients; and although a kind dispo¬ sition, natural firmness, and a sense of duty, may go a great way towards qualification for so responsible an office, the greatest security for the proper treatment of the insane undoubtedly must be sound Christian principle. I am, my Lord and Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, E. HORTON, Chaplain. WORCESTER i (PRINTED BY HOLE AND DARKE, HEKAED OfiTCE,