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Page 43
One is pleased to see in your report the extent to which organized
occupations are developed at Bloomingdale--a pleasure not unmixed with
envy at seeing the picture of the men's occupational pavilion, and the
prospective erection of a similar building for women.
In the early days of the Retreat large numbers of visitors came from all
parts of the world. There is a gap in the Visitors' Book between
1800-1815, and the list of visitors is not complete.
We have copied out the names of the American Visitors, together with an
entry by John W. Francis, M.D., in 1815. It is interesting to note that
an American woman Friend, Hannah Field, was accompanied to the Retreat
by Elizabeth Fry. In 1818 a party of North American Indians visited the
Retreat and signed the Visitors' Book with pictorial representations of
their names. These we have had photographed and I send the prints
herewith.
May I congratulate you on the centenary of your Hospital and also
congratulate you and the Governors on its remarkable development and
progress. Here at the Retreat we carry on using the original buildings
still, striving to give our patients modern treatment in premises now
almost ancient, but which do not appear so out of date in this City of
York. York congratulates New York upon its wonderful prosperity, and we
gladly recognize its development in the practice of psychiatry fully
corresponds with its development in other directions.
I remain,
Yours sincerely,
BEDFORD PIERCE.
EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE RETREAT
The Retreat, York
Meeting of Directors held on April the 30th, 1921
Copy of Minute No. 8
At this Meeting of the Directors and Agents of York Retreat we hear with
pleasure that the Bloomingdale Hospital, the section of the Society of
the New York Hospital devoted to the Treatment of Mental Diseases, is to
celebrate next month the centenary of its foundation. The facsimile
reproduction of the letter of Thomas Eddy which has been presented to
the Retreat Library is specially interesting to us as it acknowledges
the pioneer work at the Retreat and specially refers to correspondence
with Samuel Tuke. We have pleasure in sending to the Governors of the
Bloomingdale Hospital a copy of Samuel Tuke's classical work "The
Description of the Retreat" in the belief that the principles therein
set forth are of lasting importance. We send our hearty congratulations
to the Bloomingdale Hospital on its century of good work and wish it
every success in the future.
Signed,
CHARLES WEOMANS, _Chairman_.
OSCAR F. RUMLEN, _Treasurer_.
* * * * *
TRANSCRIPT FROM THE VISITORS BOOK OF THE RETREAT
EARLY AMERICAN VISITORS
1803. 3 mon 11th. _Abrm. Barker_, New Bedford, Massachusits, a young man
(a Friend) on a tour; has been in Russia, Denmark, Sweden &
Holland. (In William Tuke's writing)
1815. Nov. 30. _John W. Francis_, M.D. of N. York. J.W. Francis is not
wholly ignorant of the State of the Lunatic Asylums in North
America, and he has visited almost all the institutions for the
Insane that are established in England. He now embraces this
opportunity of stating that after an examination of the Retreat
for some hours, he should do injustice to his feelings were he
not to declare that this establishment far surpasses anything of
the kind he has elsewhere seen, and that it reflects equal credit
on the wisdom and humanity of its conductors.
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