HOSPITAL PROVISION FOR THE INSANE CRIMINAL

The Proposed Bengal Hospital for the Insane

The new hospital for the insane is intended for a daily average number of from 050 to 700 males and 175 to 200 female patients, and will be so situated and constructed that, as is not improbable, it will be capable of considerable extension in several directions. The area of land taken up is extensive, 'lhis is important, because it is fairly certain that a modern well-managed hospital of this ...

The Juridical Society, and the Criminal Responsibility of the Insane

men on the subject of insanity, that barristers are in the habit of making on occasions when they defend prisoners charged with criminal offences, could ever dissipate the dense obscurity which surrounds these subjects in the public mind. The legal profession generally, and especially the judges, have so little practical acquaintance with insanity, that their minds are absolutely unable to comp...

Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Annual Report for 1879

proved, 39 as unimproved, and 56 have died, leaving under treatment at the close of the official year 609 persons?a number exceeding that at the same period of 1878 by ten. The condition of the patients is favourably reported on, and the extensive improvements described as completed or in progress in the arrangements of the building prove the care with which the well-being of the inmates of the...

Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane

Careful statistical tables are given, relating to the number of cases since the foundation of the hospital. The form of Insanity mostly prevalent is Mania, the number being 3,359. There are 20 patients registered as havinfy suffered from delirium ; but we do not recognise this as a variety of Insanity, and cannot separate it from the form of madness it usually accompanies. Everything appears to...

The Nova Scotia Hospital for the Insane. Annual Report