"FEEDING LUNATICS."

Idiots, Imbeciles, and Harmless Lunatics

In the previous number of the Journal (page 96) it is stated that ten years ago it was suggested that the five southwestern counties of England should unite and form a separate establishment for the care, training, and education of the imbeciles and younger idiots, such as that at Earlswood, in Surrey. The practical reasons adduced for the division and separation is that the association with ep...

Lunatics, Idiots, and Cretins in France

Provision for pauper lunatics 1834-1871.

IN England attention given to the problem of the insane was reluctant and spasmodic, and scandals of the eighteenth century were left to flourish almost unchecked until 1827, when a prominent parliamentary Committee of Inquiry revealed the disgusting and cruel state of affairs.2 As a result of subsequent agitation two Acts were passed in 1828, one to regulate the care and treatment of the insan...

On the Condition of Lunatics and Idiots in Ireland

A very curious, valuable, and highly interesting Special Report upon the "Number and Condition of Lunatics and Idiots in Ireland," as presented to Parliament in a General Report on the " Status of Disease" in Ireland, at the period of taking the last census for that country in March, 1851, is now before us. Before proceeding to the more particular object of the Report, it will be instructive to...

The Bethel at Norwich: an eighteenth-century hospital for lunatics.

The history of psvchiatry has changed in recent years. One of the more exciting aspects of this change has been the move to examine primary clinical or administrative sources, to explore what was taking place within the developing profession and its institutional environment, and to relate this to its social and political surroundings. There are a number of such studies, on, for example, the Re...