c1870 antique VERMONT ASYLUM brattleboro vt ATTENDANT ASSISTANTS RULES BROADSIDE For Sale

c1870 antique VERMONT ASYLUM brattleboro vt ATTENDANT ASSISTANTS RULES BROADSIDE
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FROM WIKIPEDIA: Vermont State Hospital, alternately known as the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane and the Waterbury Asylum, was a mental institution built in 1890 in Waterbury, Vermont to help relieve overcrowding at the privately run Vermont Asylum for the Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont, now known as the Brattleboro Retreat. Originally intended to treat the criminally insane, the hospital eventually took in patients with a wide variety of problems, including mild to severe mental disabilities, epilepsy, depression, alcoholism and senility. The hospital campus, much of which now houses other state offices as the Waterbury State Office Complex, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Partly as a replacement for this facility, the state currently operates the 25 bed Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin, Vermont.

Original 19th-century printed rules broadside titled “Rules for the Attendants and Assistants of the Vermont Asylum.” The Vermont Asylum for the Insane was located in Brattleboro, Vermont.

The broadside gives institutional rules governing attendants and their treatment and supervision of patients. Particularly interesting content includes instructions that attendants:

• Treat patients with “respect, kindness and attention”
• Never use profane, obscene or vulgar language
• Keep patients under responsible supervision
• Attend meals and count knives and forks after each meal
• Never place a razor or other dangerous instrument in a patient's hands without permission
• Never surrender the key to the gallery
• Not allow a male attendant into a female gallery without permission
• Never deliver or retain a patient's letters or writings without authorization
• Not buy from, sell to, or accept presents from patients
• Never leave the premises without permission
• Not report patients' conduct or conversations while away
• Never visit the kitchen or laundry except on business

Printed within an elaborate decorative border with large display typography. Printer's imprint appears at the lower left.

Measures approximately 8 x 10 inches.

A particularly interesting piece of early American psychiatric hospital / mental health institutional history, documenting the day-to-day regulations imposed on attendants caring for patients at the Vermont Asylum.

Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.

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