The twenty-second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum].

  • Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The twenty-second report of the Committee of Visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell : January quarter sessions, 1867 / [Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had proved herself most efficient and zealous in the performance of her duties ; she was much beloved by the Patients. The Clothing supplied for the Patients during the past year has been good; and gay plaids and coloured merino dresses have been largely distributed this winter to Patients who are cleanly in their habits; while from the care exercised in the workroom, but little increase in the expenditure has been found necessary. Miss Ellen Bradford has lately succeeded Miss Pearman as Superintendent of the Workroom, the latter having been appointed Matron of the Henley Workhouse. I may be permitted to state that coloured shawls and neat bonnets are now issued to be worn by the Patients at Chapel on Sundays. The object being to foster feelings of respect for a day which happily for our country is generally well remembered in the poorest cot, and is not likely to lose any of its solemnity in this Asylum, where the services of the Church are so regularly and ably performed by the Chaplain. A handsome rosewood semi-grand Pianoforte was this year presented to the Asylum by J. S. Brooking, Esq., and is now in No. 23 Ward, where it is a source of pleasure to the Patients, several of whom are very fair performers. Considerable improvements have been made in several of the Wards. In No. 11 part of a bedroom lately occupied by three Nurses has been converted into a comfortable room for