WEST RIDING ASYLUM.

The West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports

tual impairment, are rather displacements than diminutions of capacity, and that besides, perhaps, securing the survival of the fittest, such manipulations are better borne by the young of uncivilized than of civilized tribes, he shows that the greater prevalence of insanity among civilized nations is due to the greater cranial capacity as shown by Drs. Barnard Davis and Pritchard ; while it ha...

West Riding Reports

Asylum Reform

official circular letter are, as far as they go (which is not nearly far enough), admirable. But where do they come from ? Dr. Lomax's book, " The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor," made certain accusations against the administration of Lunatic Asylums. The usual official denials were issued. Not only that, but a Committee of Inquiry was convened by Sir Frederick Willis, Chairman of the Board of...

Free Riding

We use a unique dataset that combines the responses from an original survey of households, information about the structural characteristics of their homes, utility-provided longitudinal electricity usage records, plus utility program participation information, to study the uptake of energy efficiency incentives and their effect on residential electricity consumption. Attention is restricted to ...

Bloomingdale Asylum, New York

as 1791, to the foundation of the New York Hospital; but it was not till 1797 that any insane cases were admitted into the wards of the institution. Previously to 1803, the number of lunatics received into the hospital amounted to 215. It was thought necessary, in consequence of the applications for admission increasing, to erect a spacious stone edifice near the hospital, in the same enclosure...