BUCKNILL: AMERICAN INSANE ASYLUMS

British Asylums for the Insane

We propose inaugurating our new volume by placing before our readers an analysis of the most recent reports of the British County Asylums. These annual records contain a vast body of useful general and statistical information in reference to the condition of the pauper portion of our insane population. These reports are not easy of access to many of our foreign subscribers, and it becomes, ther...

Notes on Asylums for the Insane in America

American Institutions for the Insane

We subjoin an able article from the pen of a distinguished American psychologist, Dr. Pliny Enrle, on the present state of the principal Asylums for the Insane in the United States of America.* It is taken from two consecutive numbers of Dr. Hay's ably conducted and excellent periodical, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. The reports upon which this paper is based are so difficult to...

Notes on Belgian Lunatic Asylums, Including the Insane Colony of Gheel

Amongst tlie most remarkable localities of Europe, in reference to its inhabitants, none seems so singular, stands more prominently forward in various phases, or deserves inspection byphilanthropists and curious travellers, like the establishment for lunatics, which forms the subject of subsequent observations. Situated in the north-eastern portion of Belgium, towards the confines of Limburg, a...

The Treatment of Insane Patients in India in the Lunatic Asylums of the Nineteenth Century1

British colonialists established lunatic asylums in India for the treatment of insane Europeans and Indians modeled on English institutions. They were initially constructed as they were in other parts of the British empire and the world to segregate those who were dangerous or troublesome to their neighbors by reason of mental illness. Such asylums were in fact detention centers. Based on the a...