Excerpt from Suggestions for the Use of Visitors to the Insane: Being a Brief Essay on the Cure and Care of Insane PatientsDr. Wilbur remarks, that to one familiar with the reports of the British Boards of Lunacy, it is quite obvious that one of the leading tests of good management of an asylum, in the minds of the mem bers of the Boards, is the percentage of employment of the patients and its outcome in diminished occasion for seclusion and re straint.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.