On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane

On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane

On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane - With Observations on the...
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Author: Arlidge, J. T. (John Thomas),1822-1899
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On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane

On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane

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On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane

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Author: Arlidge, J. T. (John Thomas),1822-1899
Format: eBook
Language: English

On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane - With Observations on the Construction and Organization of Asylums

The writer of a book is usually expected to show cause for its production,a custom which, however commendable as a sort of homage to his readers for challenging their attention to his lucubrations, must often put the ingenuity of an author to the test. Indeed the writer of this present treatise would feel some embarrassment in accounting for its production, did he not entertain the conviction that he has, in however imperfect a manner, supplied a work on several important subjects which have never before been so placed before the public, and which, moreover, occupy just now a most prominent position among the topics of the day. In the last Parliament, up to the period of its dissolution, a Special Committee of the House of Commons was engaged in examining into the condition of lunatics and the laws of lunacy; and the present Government has re-appointed the Committee, in order to resume the inquiry preparatory to the introduction of new enactments into the Legislature. The subjects treated of in the following pages relate to the same matters which have engaged the attention of Parliament, and elicited the special inquiry mentioned, viz. the present state of Lunacy and of the legal provision for the Insane with reference to their future wants. [Pg vi]In order to a better appreciation of the existing provision for the insane, and of its defects, the author has introduced certain preliminary chapters on the number of the insane, on the increase of insanity, on the inadequacy of the existing public provision for the insane, and on the curability of insanity. In reviewing the character and extent of the provisions for the insane, the course adopted has been to regard them in reference to their effects on recovery, and to discover the conditions inimical to it, whether without or within asylums. Hence the evils of private treatment and of workhouse detention of lunatics, particularly of the latter, have largely claimed attention. The condition of pauper lunatics boarded with their friends or with strangers demanded special notice, as did the long-complained-of evils of sending unfit cases to the county asylums, often to the exclusion of recent and curable ones, which might by proper treatment be restored to health and society. Turning to the consideration of our public asylums, considered as curative institutions, the disposition to extend them to an unmanageable size, and to substitute routine for treatment, has called for animadversion, as an error pregnant with numerous evils to their afflicted inmates. Another error pointed out is that of appointing too small a medical staff to asylums; and in proving this, as well as in estimating the proper size of asylums, the experience and opinions of both English and foreign physicians are copiously referred to. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 44320
Author: Arlidge, J. T. (John Thomas)
Release Date: Dec 1, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English

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