"LARGE ASYLUMS FOR THE INSANE."

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

The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane

be applauded. It is enough to say that in appearance and arrangement it resembles the Index Medicus. One has to be less sanguine over the Beaumont index. The first question it raises is whether a computer is really necessary to produce a guide to a small archive of 400 documents; though one must in fairness recognize that the index is experimental in nature and intended to stir up comment. It i...

Notes of a Recent Visit to Several Provincial Asylums for the Insane in France

Asylum at Le Mans. In the sketches given of the four asylums referred to in previous pages, whilst there was much to approve, still some points merited criticism, if not condemnation. The remarks I considered it necessary to make during my narrative, may perhaps seem severe; but as nothing was stated excepting from personal observation, and as I felt more anxious to communicate facts than opini...

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...