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Employment in the Treatment of Mental Diseases in the Upper Classes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

David Bower*
Affiliation:
Springfield House, Bedford

Extract

It is not less true now than when Dr. Watts sang, “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do,” and two of the Commissioners in Lunacy, after their latest inspection of my asylum on the 18th of this month, said in their report, “Many of the gentlemen are usefully employed for some hours daily, and those whom we saw at work expressed themselves as well pleased with their occupations. We are extremely glad to find that Dr. Bower has successfully combated the difficulty of finding employment for gentlemen patients. Amusements in the shape of games are also found for both sexes.”

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1882 

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* Since writing the above my attention has been called to the “School System” so successfully used as a form of employment in the Richmond Asylum, Dublin, and which is certainly deserving of special recognition.Google Scholar
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