Departments and pavilions
 Dayroom
for first class patients (those who were able to pay). The picture
by Alfred Hagblom is from 1929, and belong to the Medicinhistoriska
Museet, Lund. Click on the picture to see a larger photography.
The division of male and female patients
was introduced at Vadstena asylum in Sweden already in the eighteen
thirties. Various kinds of departments were later added, first the
wards for anxious patients and later the open wards for calm patients.
At the asylum of the Swedish city Lund, which
was completed in 1879, the paying patients lived in special pavilions.
Their day-rooms were more lavishly fitted out than in the other
pavilions, and they were trained in social life. In the park of
the asylum there were ponds, rare trees and many kinds of animals
such as peacocks, foxes, birds of prey and deers. The then superintendent
had valuable contacts which made it possible to import exotic trees,
bushes and flowers. The foundation also included a playing-ground.
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