Tenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1847.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
[1848?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1847. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The work that has been done this year has been equal to that of any former period, and many of their previous occasional engagements have now become permanent employ. It is a well known piinciple that every faculty is improved by exercise, in pursuance of which every encouragement is given, and every energy made use of, to promote those voluntary efforts to useful labour, which are productive of this double advantage; of lead¬ ing them on, to the necessary feeling of returning use¬ fulness, and, not unfrequently, at the same time, to the more difficult, but also, the more important act of self-government and control. Acting under these impressions, the exercise of ingenuity is constantly to be seen in the works of some of the inventive genii of the house. The affairs of the farm and agricultural tillage are invaluable sources of occupation; one man continues to owe the comfort of his life to the cows, another to the donkey, a third and a fourth to the poultry and the pigs; and the occasional transfer of affection to the objects of each other’s choice, (which will now and then take place,) only seems to cause a renewal of it when they return to their original selection. A great deal of painting has been done, and many of the airing grounds improved; where the ground was damp, it has been removed, and relaid with Asphalt¬ ed pavement, prepared and laid down by themselves. We have yet further work in store for another year, if we are spared to accomplish it; several ol the old c