Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester: December, 1846 The facts which it discloses show conclusively the necessity and the benefits of such an institution. The several tabular statements exhibit, at a glance, the various causes of insanity, the prominent characteristics and the results of the cases of all patients received into the Hospital, the proportions in which the, different counties of the State have furnished patients, and the increasing number of State paupers whom it has become necessary to provide for. These state ments, the Trustees beg leave to observe, may be useful in correcting some erroneous impressions, which appear to have prevailed in the Legislature and elsewhere, and they will enable all who seek it to obtain accurate and' complete information of the facts relating to every point involved in the management of the institution. It will be seen that, as Was anticipated, by the trustees, the enlarge, ment of the Hospital has not transcended the actual demand for an increase of accommodation. The average number of patients for the year has exceeded the number of separate rooms even now provided for them; and the records show that, from week to week, there has been but very slight variation from the average number. It may be assumed, therefore, that the Hospital will henceforth continue full, and all the arrangements, which have been adopted in reference to its enlargement, should be-regarded as permanently established. The in creasing population of the State; the larger infusion into it of that element which, at the Hospital, as in the almshouses, is seen to cause a rapid increase of the proportion of State paupers; the multiplication of pursuits in which tendencies to. Insanity are most frequently devel oped, and the extension of the humane policy, which prompts such as have the public or private oversight of insane persons to secure to them the benefits which a Hospital only can afford, - all these causes combine to make it. Certain that there cannot be a want of patients, or of constant employment for the numerous officers and attendants who have been appointed to take charge of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.