The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1876.

  • Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Charminster, England)
Date:
1877
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Credit: The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1876. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a C H A PLAIN5 S REPORT To the Committee of Visitors of the Dorset County Asylums• Gentlemen, In submitting to you my Sixth Annual Report, I beg to state that the Services in each Chapel of this Institution have been duly performed during the past year. The Sunday afternoon Readings and Expositions, for the benefit of those who are not able to attend Chapel, have also been carried on, and I have every reason to believe that those Meetings prove a benefit to them. The number of Patients attending the Services has been very fair, when we consider that their behaviour at all times has been remarkably good. I find that they heartily join in the responses and singing, and pay much attention to the sermons, some of them occasionally remind me of any deficiency there may be in my discourse according to their own fancy. The Holy Sacrament has been administered eleven times during the year. The Offertory, which has been handed over to Mr. Symes for the Charity Fund, amounts to £3 2s. 3d. Sacred Singing Classes have been held as usual at Charminster on Wednesdays and at Forston on Thursdays. In mentioning this, I must not omit thanking the Visitors on behalf of the congregation and myself, for the Organ which they have provided for our use at the Charminster Chapel. The gift is very highly appreciated by all, and is of very great assistance in the musical part of our services. I have visited the Patients in their respective Wards as regularly as possible, and have invariably met with every respect from them ; they value any endeavour to promote their spiritual or temporal comfort.