Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report of the Trustees of the Worcester State Hospital for the Year Ending November 30, 1930: Department of Mental Diseases
Musical work has received much attention. The patient's choir meets-twice a week during the summer and once a week during the remainder of the year. This affords an Opportunity for a large group Of patients to find wholesome self-expres sion. Frequent entertainments and community sings are held and the choir holds occasional serenades out on the lawn of the hospital for the benefit of closed ward patients. Last summer we were so fortunate as to have in the student group some very talented singers who formed a trio and sang twice each week on the wards Of the hospital for the benefit of those who were too sick or too disturbed to come out to the choir practices and community sings.
For the past five years this department with the aid Of the summer students and of the other departments has arranged programs for special occasions such as July Fourth and Labor Day.
This expansion Of the work in the summer to include many recreational activities as well as specific pastoral work is made possible only through the presence in the hospital Of a group Of theological students who spend part of their day working as attendants on the wards and part Of the time in these other activities.
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