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2 INSANITY; ITS CAUSE AND CtTBE.
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two years it had to be enlarged for three hundred more ; and at this time ( Colney Hatch having * "been meanwhile constructed for the
to recep the tion same of one count thousand y ) _Hanwell two hundred contains lunatic upwards paupers of one belong thousand ing
patients . Colney Hatch was opened in 1851 ; within a period of less than five it became to appeal to the rate-payers
years necessary for further accommodation ; and recent returns show that there are more than one thousand pauper lunatics belonging to the county
the unprovided metropolitan for in county any of has its been asylums going . What on more has or been less going throug on hout in
the whole country . Additional accommodation for the insane has must been provided make allowance , and farther for two accommodation things to be taken is still into required consideration . Wo
in an inferring actual increase , from in the the increased numbers demand afflicted for with asy the lums malad for y the : namel insane y _* _,
years the great in the improvement management that of asy has lums taken , and place the during consequentl the last y increased twenty
desire to place the insane in institutions where every chance of rethe covery proportion is afforde of d curable them ; cases and the of insanit accumulation being something of chronic like cases one :
y in five . Still , making allowance for these things , a large progressive increase in the number of lunatics is apparent . By a comparison
of the returns of pauper lunatics and idiots , made by the Poor Law Board in the years 1852 and 1857 respectively , it is found that the
numbers in the former year were twenty-one thousand one hundred and and fiffcy ninety -ei - g three ht , and , showing in the latter an increase , twenty of -seven six thousand thousand five six hun hundred dred
hundred and thirt and y-five ninet in five -three years fifteen . Of thousand that twent four y hundred -seven thousand and fifty-five six y , womenIn 1852 their ortion to the opulation was as one
were . propp hundred to eight and hundred one and Deductions forty-seven must , in also 1857 be it made was as from one this to seven great _,
. of apparent chronic increase cases in on account lumsfor of the when tendency Hanwell to was the extended accumulation and
Colney Hatch was opened asy a , vast number of old established cases fluences crowde The d causes of in , the to the of exclusion insanity operating must of recent both be and soug hysicall curable ht y for and in cases the morall . social y ; the
inmoral In order and to p comprehend hysical age , causes all the acting causes and p of re insanit -acting y upon we have each onl other y to .
name two influences , the excessive luxury and the excessive poverty cause which to prevail be found at the in two operation extremes at both of the ends social of that scale . scale There making is one a
, prey child alike of overty of the enervated depressed and and sensitive dulled by child over of -work luxury and , and anxiety of the ;
that cause p is drunkenness , but thatas we think , is rather a , ,
symptom With regard of the to . disorder drunkenness than in , itself Lord the Shaftesbury root of the , as disease one . of the
2 Insanity; Its Cause And Cttbe.
2 INSANITY ; ITS CAUSE AND _CtTBE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/2/
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