The twentieth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1871 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • London (England). County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch.
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[1871]
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Credit: The twentieth annual report of the committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch : January quarter session, 1871 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPLAIN’S REPORT, 1870. The Chaplain has the honour to submit to the Committee of Visitors his Report for 1870. Chapel Services.—Holy Communion has been celebrated, before Morning Prayer, on every Sunday throughout the year. The privilege of a weekly Communion, everywhere valuable, is attended with special advantage in a community of this kind. The average attendance has been 19 ; the largest number present was 43. No particular remark is called for with respect to the Sunday Services at 11 and 3’30: a short address continues to be given at the former. The congregation of the Male Patients on Sundays at one time slightly increased; but the Chapel attendance has been to some extent affected by the recent removal from the Asylum of many of the Patients who used to frequent the Services. The highest attendance at both Morning and Afternoon Services on Sundays, appears to have been on the 7th August, when the numbers were 1,031; the lowest, on 13th February, when the total was 684. With the exception of the Sundays on which the Chaplain was absent on annual leave, the Household Sunday Evening Service, at 8*15, has been regularly conducted and attended, if not by a large, by an attentive congregation. The “Ancient and Modern” Hymn Book has been e 2