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In 1774 an act for the regulation of madhouses (14 George III c.49) required the Justices to license private houses used for the reception of lunatics and to appoint two Justices and a physician to inspect them. A subsequent act in 1828 (9 George IV c.41) required plans of private asylums to be presented to the Commissioners in Lunacy or the Quarter Sessions, as well as registers of patients. The appointment of the visitors remained a duty of the Quarter Sessions after 1888. www.eastriding.gov.uk/CalmView (Broadgate Hospital Mental Hospital Archives, 1871-1906: Online access to the male and female case books from the Broadgate Hospital [formerly East Riding Mental Hospital], East Riding of Yorkshire archive [formerly East Riding Mental Hospital]. The records are housed at the East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies) Despite its charitable nature, the Holloway Sanatorium was inclined towards commercial interests from the beginning. While spending the above-mentioned amount of Holloway’s legacy on its establishment, it was not competent to collect subscriptions and endowments from the public. Accordingly, it soon depended on fees from patients for 99% of its annual income, Footnote 65 and sought ways to improve profitability. The answer was found in voluntary admission.

In both personal medical practices and institutional settings, psychiatrists came up with new measures to survive the 1890 Act. Because of legal certification, patients and their families tended to avoid lunatic asylums and hospitals for the insane, and instead resorted to institutions such as nursing homes, foreign hostels and hydropathic institutions. In the professional crisis under the 1890 Act, psychiatric institutions developed three strategies to re-attract customers: using the voluntary admission system without legal certification, keeping high-paying patients from being discharged, and decreasing charitable and publicly funded admissions.In the pre-war period, psychiatrists failed to establish new legislation. They campaigned for Lunacy Law reform patiently and relentlessly, but their reform bills ended in failure six times between 1890 and 1914. Footnote 101 They persuaded the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney-General to introduce a reform bill, but failed to persuade Members of Parliament (MPs) of its necessity. Politicians responded either that the House of Commons should avoid ‘contentious’ bills Footnote 102 or that it must reject the bill for ‘want of time’ and ‘pressure of business’ in Parliament. Footnote 103 Jones, Kathleen, Law and conscience, 1744-1845: the social history of the care of the insane (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1955)

www.countyasylums.com (County Asylums: Rediscovering the Asylums and Mental Hospitals of England and Wales, including photos and information on individual asylums) Not all of the records in MH 12 have been digitised – see the MH 12 series description. 5. Other records of patients and inmates Similarly, the SDA and HIDB were reconstituted in 1992 with differing structures and functions, as Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, respectively.

Scottish Government Records After 1707

www.findmypast.co.uk (Bethlem Hospital Patient Admission Registers and Casebooks 1683-1932, including Warlingham Park near Croydon; Prestwich Asylum Admissions, 1851-1901. Produced in association with the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society; Kent, Bexley Asylum Minute Books 1901-1939; South Yorkshire Asylum Admission Records, 1872-1910. The asylum, later known as the Middlewood Hospital, was established in Sheffield at Wadsley Park in 1872) www.findmypast.co.uk (Scotland, Mental Health Institutions Registers & Admissions. Search admission and register records for Scottish mental health institutions including asylums and poorhouses. The records were transcribed by Graham and Emma Maxwell from the original records held at the National Records of Scotland. The records for Inverness District Asylum have been provided by Stuart Farrell) County Record Office (County asylum records including casebooks. Most records will be found locally as no central repository of records exists. Find the details of a local UK archive from a searchable list of over 2,500 archives hosted by The National Archives) The Royal Naval Hospital in Yarmouth was also a major hospital for naval lunatics and searches with the hospital name in our catalogue will return document references for various records. We do have ideas to open up future designs to the public, doing competitions in graffiti and tattoo magazines/socials etc. It’s a good way to engage with like-minded people who like what we do. Along with future collaborations with new graff mag Bonkerz that has just released its second issue.”

This is a guide to records of lunatic asylums, their inmates and other records relating to mental health, primarily from the 19th century, held at The National Archives. Lunatic asylums were first established in Britain in the mid-19th century.

Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements, 1727-1991 (NG1); Records of the Drawing Academy and School of Applied Art, 1828-68 (NG2); Royal Institution for Encouragement of Fine Arts, 1817-1971 (NG3); Royal association for Promotion of the Fine Arts, 1836-1897 (NG4); Board of Trustees for the National Galleries, 1861-1974 (NG5); National Gallery of Scotland, 1850-1963 (NG6); Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1871-1985 (NG7); National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, 1827-1955 (NG8) and the National Art Survey of Scotland, 1907-51 (NG9). Some functions have, however, changed to new departments, notably social work, which is now split between Justice and Health.

Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland, (MH1-3), registers, accounts, reports and letter books, including supply of bodies to schools of anatomy, 1842-1949; Scottish child care files, 1954-74 (MH4). What we urgently need, not only for the sake of patient, not only for the sake of his relatives, but for the sake of humanity, and for the sake of true economy, is greater elasticity to treat the early symptoms of this disease, to treat them during the stages when an accurate diagnosis may not yet be possible, and before the disease has become chronic. Footnote 97The note added: “We are unlikely to ever know the full truth about all of this … it is plausible that Chirac told Milosevic that airstrikes in the immediate aftermath of hostage releases were unlikely but stopped short of any formal undertaking …”