Twenty-sixth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester. October, 1858.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester.
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1858
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Credit: Twenty-sixth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester. October, 1858. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Superintendent to the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester. Gentlemen,—In obedience to the By-Laws of the State Lunatic Hospital, the Superintendent presents to its Board of Trustees the Twenty-Sixth Annual Report. It is needless to remark that the year has been one of peculiar trial and severe labor. In reviewing its history we hope it may be found that our efforts have been crowned with some degree of success. Our aim has been to sustain the high character of the hospital, increase its usefulness, and to extend its curative facilities. Whatever of good has been accomplished, must be attributed to your constant oversight, ready assistance, and wise direction in all the affairs of the institution. During the entire year the general health of the patients has been good, with complete exemption from all epidemic diseases. For this blessing, we must all feel abundant cause for renewed thankfulness to God, as well as for the discipline, good order, and harmony which have always marked our household. The hospital has accommodations for three hundred patients. Our tables will show that during almost the entire ten months, the period which this report covers,—we have been greatly crowded. By order of his Excellency, Governor Banks, there were transfer¬ red to the hospital for insane at Northampton, August 16, 1858— Males, ....... 35 Females, . . . . . . 16 — 51