Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody: Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century EnglandThis book is a study of the pioneer early county asylums, which were intended to provide for the 'cure', and 'safe custody' of people suffering from the ravages of insanity. It considers the origins of the asylums, how they were managed, the people who staffed them, their treatment practices, and the experiences of the people who were incarcerated. 'Community care' in the late 20th century has led us to abandon the network of nineteenth century lunatic asylums. This book reminds us of the ideals that lay behind them. The book contains extensive material regarding particular cities/counties, e.g. Nottingham, Lincoln, Stafford, Wakefield, Lancaster, Bedford, West Riding, Norfolk, Cornwall, Dorset, Suffolk, etc. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 12 | |
2 Asylum Management | 52 |
Peopling the Asylum | 93 |
From Keepers to Attendants | 131 |
5 Inside the Asylum | 159 |
6 Treatment and Care | 187 |
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Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody: Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth ... Leonard Smith No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
31 December admission admitted Andrews Annual Reports April asylum management August became Bedford behaviour CCRO Charlesworth Commissioners in Lunacy Corsellis county asylums County Record Office Crommelinck Crowther cure custodial DCRO Derangement Digby Dorset Dorset Asylum early February GCRO Gloucester Asylum GLRO governors Hanwell Hanwell Asylum Higgins Hill History of Psychiatry Hospital Infirmary Insanity London institution January John Conolly Journal July June keepers LAWN Lincoln Asylum LLSL Madhouses Madness magistrates March mechanical restraint Medical Officers 1841 Medicine Metropolitan Commissioners Middlesex moral treatment NCRO NkCRO non-restraint Norfolk Asylum Nottingham Asylum November numbers Observations October Paul Slade Knight Pauper Lunatic Asylum physician practice Psychiatry public asylums Robert Gardiner Hill Rules Samuel Hitch Samuel Tuke SCRO Scull Select Committee September Social Solitary of Afflictions staff Staffordshire subscription asylums SuCRO Suffolk Asylum superintendent therapeutic Visiting Justices Epiphany visitors Wakefield West Riding Asylum William Ellis WRCRO York Retreat