Fifth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1842.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Fifth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1842. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    occur. Only a few weeks back, 5 boarders were refused in two days, and 5 paupers ad” mitted in two days. If every one of our present boarders and out-County paupers were remo¬ ved, the house would then be full. We should then have 195 patients; and we learn from overseers, who have recently been here, that several more are on the point of being sent. The house, notwithstanding its numbers, has been, and is, in a very healthy condition. We find the continued comfort of the Arnott’s stoves, they work very well, and we are enabled by them, to keep the house pretty generally throughout, at a temperature between 55 and 60 degrees. Another year has been passed without the necessity of personal restraint in any single instance. Beyond this notice of these admissions, gene¬ rally, there is not much that appears particu¬ larly necessary to enlarge upon. Our plan of treatment, general over-sight, and internal dis¬ cipline, is only a continuance of what has been long tried, and satisfactorily attested. This house exhibits, in no ordinary degree, the features of a large domestic establishment; it has many of its advantages, and not a few of its comforts : and the desire is, always to act upon the principle, that the more repulsive the object, the more