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INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT. 319
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Qp Insanity, Like Other Diseases, Change...
returns made of tlie insane , nearly 3000 are idiots and imbecile , y "We ielding have ' an been average somewhat of one minute in every in the _thmisand statistics of of the Scotland population , — -the . 1 the
amount of insanity beingso large . Everywhere we notice same idiotcy law lected * prevalent among and —— wliere that insanit the of y inhabitants agricultural most rife among are provinces stationary the , population where and intermarriages education of towns is ,
neg criterion are consequentl of the y amount frequent of . unrecognised In this return insanity , as in . others Compared , we have with no statement
1847 the number of insane , according to the official , , has about doubled . 13500
The estimated population of Ireland is 7 , 00 0 , 000 ; of these , , The are reported various Asy to be lums of unsound and Pauper mind Institutions , or one in nearl every give 3000 500 accommo inhabitants idiotic dation .
to are about at large 8000 residing , the remainder with friends , of whom and relatives y . If are Ireland is , whi proverbial ch she regards for her mental poverty disorders , so also . is The she Irish for hold the idiotcy estimation almost in
in the same light as the early ages did insanity , —if not an They object deem of worshi that the p , at presence least a of blessin one of g these sent innocents direct from as they heaven call .
, them the house from harm—and with some vague religious , sentiment preserves , they believe that the , idiot , though denied human favor
intelligence , is yet the immediate recipient of divine , converses prise ¦ with , angels then , , can and be is wrap felt , t even in the when contemp the lation starving of number heaven condition . of No of sur the
-Irish is remembered , to learn what a far greater persons of unsound mind are at large in Ireland than in any other country . Never almost mind reverential how poor fon , dness how wretched to their the idiot Irish child famil : the y , they warmest cling no with ok
in the hovelthe best portion of their homely fare is ungrudgingly what given , we and should when , call they their come living to Eng bur land then in harvest with them time . , th Some ey bring time *
sincewe met with a touching instance of this . Happening to be travelling all shoeless , in and Devonshire in rags , , we with met the an excep Irish tion famity of a on girl the of about road ,
entering her eighteen position , into whose . conversation If vacan not well t countenance , with she the was party at and least shambling it was decentl almost y gai clothed t affecting expressed . On to
, creature as see we how carelessl distressed They y indi p they itied gnantly were them scouted at for our being such _tvickedness an hampered idea , . as On they by looking so calle useless d back it , — a ,
. we saw that the best part of the remnants of our lunch , which we gave them , was immediately handed over to the girl , who received
A the of few some food days sheaves as her after ri , carefull g passing ht , and y p devoured throug laced h to a it screen harvest with her comp field from laisant , under the indifference sun the , lay shade the .
same poor idiot asleep , half-buried in the poppies and corn flowers
Insanity , Past And Present. 319
INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT . 319
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/31/
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