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A LUNATIC VILLAGE. 95
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Part Ii. {Concluded From P. 33.)
strangers where they in themselves the rules and were customs born ; taking of the " great place pains , doing to initiat the honors e the
of its amusements , and affording living proofs of the degree to which We sympath findalso y may that survive if a larg reason e proportion . of the inmates are
radi-, , of call 1838 y , incurable two -five of the , deaths they patients were yet were live from to centenari mere extreme old ans old ; and age and in at 1850 were Gheel , ten atients . out In twenty agep
who had been at Gheel since 1803 . The average , of deaths is about 7 per cent ., while in French asylums few it details is 12 and 14 . the
female CHir readers patients . may In be the inter year ested 1859 in , the a total new regarding admissions In , the of both sexes , came to 121 , of whom 46 only were women . onl
last 218 h four ave be years en wo , the men new ; thus admissions more men have are sent been to 527 Gheel , of — whom probably y , because the active life of the farms and gardens is considered more
b suitable the nourriciers for them , . and Of also these makes 218 them 29 paid more for desired their maintenance as assistants ;
y , the rest were paupers paid for by middle their _commxme classes to . entrust Thus we their see
to relatives that education it is to not the very 6 onl colony common were , which hi for hl is the much educated to be 95 regretted possessed . In " elemen regard - y
tary knowled , ge , " and y 117 were g wholly untaug , ht . Again , of these widowed 218 women 4 , onl 121 were under sing twent le , 95 were of married and , and 4 were 36 ab were ove
; y were y years age ; eig Of hty the . The whole greater 527 proportion men and were women between taken thirty together and , who Mi - j . have
more been curable admitted than or doubtful a year durin ( rang cases g , the ing at last up the four to time twenty years of , admission ye 334 ars had of insanity been there insane were ); and onl for of y
this results 145 , latter _xoliile o £ the point 382 treatment , were as showing alread pursued y incurable the at degree Ghe . el I are to lay lessened which particular the in appearance admirable stress on
b cases y the there _iDractiee when of these trying have other failed remedies and the first malad , and onl has y sending "become y
chronic . Moral causes furnish the greater , proportion of patients , the and li organic stIt disease ' s comes to me secondary that this ; order hereditary is not madness exactly the is third same in as
. appear suffer that affirmed more , from by our " manie Eng " lish . than ph from ysicians any . other Both form men of and insanity women "; the head of
meaning by that term " _delusions" not coming under melancholy madness or of delirium . number of who
were quitted In decidedl the Gheel four were years better 226 above 19 ; of were alluded these taken , 132 to , away had the died uncured , 51 were , 4 women were cured with , 13
-y , caug drawn ht , as and dangerous kept henceforth , and 7 ran at home away , . or in Those an asy who lum ran . The of away greater were
number of deaths occur between forty and seventy years _ag-e .
A Lunatic Village. 95
A LUNATIC VILLAGE . 95
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/23/
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