Antique VERMONT INSANE ASYLUM Rules for Attendants ORIGINAL BROADSIDE SIGN c1860

Description

Up for sale is this very rare original antique broadside for the Vermont Asylum for the Insane. The broadside was printed by J. H. Capen of Brattleboro, VT.  It is in overall very good condition with just some minor signs of wear and age.  The broadside is printed on fairly thin blue paper.  It measures approximately 9 7/8 inches by 7 3/4 inches and dates to sometime around the 1850's-1860's.  Please look at the scans to note the condition.
The broadside reads:
Rules for the Attendants and Assistants of the Vermont Asylum
It is expected that every person employed in the asylum, will do readily and cheerfully, all the duties required by the Officers.
They must treat Patients with respect, kindness and attention; and never use any profane, obscene, or vulgar language.
Every patient must be in charge of some responsible individual at all times, unless permitted to be at large by superintendent.  And when taken from the galleries by any person, that person is responsible for their safe keeping till returned to the halls, or entrusted by officers to the care of another person.
The attendants must always be present at the meals, and be careful that no patient shall carry away a knife, fork or other article from the table, and shall count the knives and forks after each meal.
They must never place in the hands of the patients, any razor or other dangerous instrument, without permission of the officers.
They must never give up the key of the gallery, nor let any person into the halls without permission of the officers, and no male attendant shall enter a female gallery without such permission.
They must never deliver any letter or writing from or to any patient, without permission of the officers nor retain in his or her possession, without such permission, any writing of a patient.
No attendant shall purchase of, or sell to, a patient, anything; nor receive any present of a patient, a friend of a patient, or visitor, without permission of the officers.
They must never leave the premises without permission of the officers, and when abroad, they must never report the conduct or conversation of the patients.
They must never visit the kitchen or laundry, except on business.
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