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62 TALLIS'S ILLUSTRATED LONDON ;
garden, an orchard, shrubberies, and airing grounds, while
the asylum buildings cover four acres. Mechanical re-
straints are entirely abandoned in this institution; "watch-
fulness, kindness, and forbearance are substituted. Nearly
1,000 lunatics may be seen employed in household or agri-
cultural pursuits, or amusing themselves in the beautiful
grounds by which the asylum is surrounded. The patients
are furnished with books, bagatelle-boards, draughts, do-
minoes, cards, and musical instruments; and some of them
have every facility afforded for drawing and painting. In
184-9 the number of patients who had been admitted into
the asylum since its opening, in 1831, were 3,255. Of
these 801 had been cured, 171 relieved, 1,320 had died,
and 963 remained.
To return to St. George's-fields. On the west side of
St. George's-road, between Bedlam and the Elephant and
Castle, is the Philanthropic Institution, at the back of the
School for the Blind. It was incorporated in 1806, and
receives children who had been engaged in criminal
offences, or who are the offspring of convicted felons, pro-
viding the objects of its care with suitable employment,
and training them to habits of virtue and industry. "Work-
shops have been erected for the employment of the chil-
dren. The boys are instructed in printing, bookbinding,
shoemaking, and other trades, and the girls are taught
needlework, and otherwise are supplied with the necessary
qualifications to enable them to undertake household
duties.
Thus, St. George's-fields, although they have long since
ceased to be meadows, have become the seat of some of
the most valuable and beneficent institutions with which
the metropolis teems, and in this respect they merit a
higher report than they did in those palmy days, when
they offered the aspect of a rural plain, rich in wild
flowers, and with no other roads than green lanes.
garden, an orchard, shrubberies, and airing grounds, while
the asylum buildings cover four acres. Mechanical re-
straints are entirely abandoned in this institution; "watch-
fulness, kindness, and forbearance are substituted. Nearly
1,000 lunatics may be seen employed in household or agri-
cultural pursuits, or amusing themselves in the beautiful
grounds by which the asylum is surrounded. The patients
are furnished with books, bagatelle-boards, draughts, do-
minoes, cards, and musical instruments; and some of them
have every facility afforded for drawing and painting. In
184-9 the number of patients who had been admitted into
the asylum since its opening, in 1831, were 3,255. Of
these 801 had been cured, 171 relieved, 1,320 had died,
and 963 remained.
To return to St. George's-fields. On the west side of
St. George's-road, between Bedlam and the Elephant and
Castle, is the Philanthropic Institution, at the back of the
School for the Blind. It was incorporated in 1806, and
receives children who had been engaged in criminal
offences, or who are the offspring of convicted felons, pro-
viding the objects of its care with suitable employment,
and training them to habits of virtue and industry. "Work-
shops have been erected for the employment of the chil-
dren. The boys are instructed in printing, bookbinding,
shoemaking, and other trades, and the girls are taught
needlework, and otherwise are supplied with the necessary
qualifications to enable them to undertake household
duties.
Thus, St. George's-fields, although they have long since
ceased to be meadows, have become the seat of some of
the most valuable and beneficent institutions with which
the metropolis teems, and in this respect they merit a
higher report than they did in those palmy days, when
they offered the aspect of a rural plain, rich in wild
flowers, and with no other roads than green lanes.