Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital At Worcester
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Great numbers of new patients are committed every month, recommittals take place frequently, and if one class are sent away, it only makes room for another ; so that before the Trustees again assemble, the institution is in the same crowded state, ready for them again to look about for others to send to the wretched receptacles prepared for them, whether in private fami- lies, almshouses, or prisons, places mostly unfit for their residence, and with those who know not how to take care of them, ...and who often feel little interest or regard for their welfare and happiness. The result of this state of things must be, that additional accommo- dations be provided, or that there must be a revision of the law of com- mittal. Those who have hereditary predisposition to insanity, and especially those who have periodical attacks in one or more recurrences of dis- 1843.] SENATE— No. 19. 61 ease, should carefully avoid all the voluntary causes of insanity, — such as intemperance, the secret vice, all excitements of a political or re- ligious character, speculations, inventions, and every other unnatural excitement of the mind and feelings, which may incur the tendency to disease.
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