psychiatric institutions Sant Boi de Llobregat have received throughout its history, visits to the most varied reasons: scientific, medical, institutional, inspectors, cultural, recreational, etc. . From early times, Dr. Antonio Pujadas and Mayans who attended the visits were requested and on 20 May each year, during the annual festival of the municipality, provided open day. News documented that appear in the newspaper archives of newspapers and files that I had access, usually referred visits the establishment for men, run by the Brothers Hospitallers of the Order of St John of God, and only rarely cited the establishment for women, run by the Congregation of Sisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
In the first half of April 1930, the rapporteur of Charity of the Provincial de Barcelona visited the mental hospital Sanatorium Our Lady of Montserrat, and the writer takes pleasure in informing the nice compliments from visitors to tour the different halls and extensive gardens and check that all was well in perfect order. He ends laconically stating that "then went to visit the bedlam of women, " and coldly, without further details. transcribe publishing" La Vanguardia "
" VISIT OF OUR SANATORIUM mental hospital. MRS. DE MONTSERRAT.
Don Alberto Bastardas, rapporteur of Charity of the Barcelona Provincial Council, visited the sanatorium mental hospital of Our Lady of Montserrat in San Baudilio (former asylum for men), accompanied by the head of the Interior Don Enrique Sebastian, and Busquet doctor, a psychiatrist from the council.
The visitors, who were received the top of the Commission, Brother Justinian Valencia, and the principal physician, Dr. Don Antonio RodrÃguez Morini, together with professionals involved in the heart of the house, carefully walked the halls of boarding and welfare, admiring the beautiful in the first distribution and comfort that they are gifted, both as regards the luxurious rooms, dining rooms and playrooms, as the breadth and leafy park with your comfort and pleasure, and in seconds, or in the halls charities, was delighted the order and cleanliness that prevailed in the various departments of the respective wards, especially in the pavilion for the oversight and epilepsy, where the light and hygiene prevailing in profusion.
Visitors interested in all sorts of details in the psychiatric clinic that exists within the sanatorium for patients newly admitted acute. To that effect, doctors and Dr. Rodriguez Morini Soler told them that made use of all the healing agents from the old and classic psychotherapeutic means, to modern use today such as clinoterapia, balneotherapy prolonged piroterapia, occupational therapy, etc. .
the end of the visit only deserved congratulations Sanitarium address by visitors, so they were well cared for the sick psychopaths.
then went to visit the asylum of women " (1)
(1) " La Vanguardia ", Sunday April 13, 1930. Page 9
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