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Appendix 61(11) 1765 petition for admission of Catherine Gazy, as compiled from Mordaunt's letter — - ! the Right Worjhipful the Pre/7dent and T'reafurer, and the orfl':fal the Governors of Bethiem Ho/p ital, London. The Htim6le Petition of/4 ________ ) fr f-; 4 — - 'ait/i /I J aA iT - iZ 6,t4# S4 #,idj/zc,, , - n' ie4y .4 A4 ahes,' 6t'F? 7 L7A / 6 - - : TS?_.- '•- /g, H--••-•-. Tour Petitioner humbly pray: your WorJhip: to admit theJaidez,4 - — -. -- _______ - a Patient into jour faid Hofpital in Order to 1. - -. 4,fd yovr Petitioner will ever Jray, &c. I de/re the faid Lunatic maj be admitted a Patient intO Beth1ei Hofpital, if a fit ObjeEi. 514 M& --I
ppendix 6m Petition for the admission of Elizabeth Bagg, 11 May 1765, who was 'Rejected having the the Itch' 2 the Right Wa rj7ip/ui the Pre/dent and TreaJ'urer, and the Warj7ipful the Governors of Bethiem Hofpita4 L4ndon. I, The Hum6le Petition J, '- TZ/h 6 27i3,L;I 4Z47 •) ,, 3JL' I £ &7__ Tour Petitioner &imZy pray: Jour TYorftip: to admit the Jid%5— ____ a Patient into jour faid Ho/pital in Order to - - - - And ycur Petitioner will vr pray, &c. 1 dc/re 13e faid Lunatic, my óe admitted a Patient into Beth1cn Hofpital, f fir O6Jef!. - 57! j- - 7
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Queen Mary and Westfield College Lo
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Abbreviations Contents Chapter 1 In
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Acknowledgments The list of those I
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Chapter 1 Introduction: The Histori
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to 'be interesting' rather than ana
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paradigm of insanity' 9, and in ord
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that the development and practice o
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cure remained a vital object of the
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Introduction Chapter 2 Visiting In
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accessibility' ?12 It is not enough
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would tend to verify the statements
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ernors concerning the conduct of st
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The Exhortatory Show And The Visito
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een worn by the apprentices of Brid
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more likely a patient was to receiv
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e compared to Isabella's role in Th
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egard the patients of Bethiem as th
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theorists and moralists were accord
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Lockean psychology on the Age of Re
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of madness onto society more often
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applied to visiting Bethiem. Thus,
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always mischievous; and that 'if ev
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a similar fashion, in The Changelin
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Although the 8taff knew 'nothing ab
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and the corners of her mouth raised
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and to obtain most 'cause for laugh
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periods, the 'Sport' often became r
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For Anne Digby, too, public visitin
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England and France went to consider
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alias Joseph Warton, in The Adventu
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a year of its opening, he 'was so c
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so contrary an effect' on him that
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sympathy for 'those under such Dism
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or woman 'of feeling'. From searchi
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It was no mere coincidence that Tho
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themselves', three years before thi
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without the Direction of Reason and
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expostutated, after outlining the s
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e sad', indicates how little had ch
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may well have been confined by in l
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Tryon that visitors were allowed an
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Tryon had alleged that I3ethlern wa
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cells, and only 'afforded' the usua
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Moorfields can have done little to
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to the amelioration of such conditi
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Sundays when visitors were barred 3
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acco began to come into better favo
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crusading endeavours to tighten lic
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to have secreted nearly £12 in her
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in four public newspapers and poste
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adjustments had to be made to the b
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carceral institutions447. If such d
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Like Swift, Mackenzie, in his The M
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Governors what a provocation naked
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observed a male patient leap on the
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to mental and physical health, and
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infirmaries, unless friends or rela
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The only question Carkesse records
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pots 'in the Spectators' Faces'522.
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y visiting 'the hospitals about thi
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Court dealt with both complaints in
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in excess of expenditure. By 1770,
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Hyde in 1781, and Jane Gibbs in 180
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whose immediate care they were573 D
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N N Uj I- LA 0 0 (n . 0 I U C CL I
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Fig. 2d Stone rigur.s o? '1s1ancho1
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Fig. 2g New Beth1en in Moorfields c
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- -,.----1 T 1fi' a - -4Ti L- I F1
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Pig. 2k View of Betbiern at Moorfie
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The fact of the matter is that hist
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emoved the artificial obstacles sta
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edding permitted' at I3ethlem is il
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semi-naked state. James Carkesse co
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when provided with them36. Benefact
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charged if their securities failed
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essaries were still 'wanting for th
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equired 'Sheeted Beds'. While 22% i
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deemed capable of looking after the
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subject of considerable censure in
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Indeed, there is very little direct
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vaults at most 100 . Generally in t
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or lousy 'Kennels' was viewed by ma
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concern for matters of hygiene and
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hospitals and prisons'. Moreover, t
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one means of subjugating the signs
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have supposed. Awareness of the nee
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and that the Committee regularly we
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lunacy, as a means of enclosing the
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of the darkness of Bethiem had as m
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the sober splendour of the hospital
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It would be erroneous to suggest, h
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the weather in contemporary medical
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Diet: feeding and starving the poor
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to Bethiem until 1708, by which tim
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to mechanistic theories of diseased
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in, the eighteenth century hospital
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D inner: Supper: Dinner: Supper: DI
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which was an intermittent source of
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What was missing from the Governors
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aged the Matron and Cook to 'scum y
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'every indulgence, which oeconomy p
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Bethlem, in 1692, that the care of
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seems at least to have acted as a s
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occupying patients after mid-centur
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of which Bethiem has been the great
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most other witnesses at the 1815/16
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Bethlem338 In the period before the
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number of Lunatikes' and of 'their
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with appropriate medicaments, and d
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Chains were imposed as a matter of
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against his physical or moral emanc
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a patient was restrained and of the
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ential, when viewed in the context
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unhealthy obstructions, and even at
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p[re]dudiciall to the said hospital
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cells throughout the period, and th
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apeutic/classificatory division of
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the Governors claimed (with an iron
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(agreeing to abate the entire sum o
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access (with the complicity of staf
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of Bridewell and Bethlem 'proposed'
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Fig. 3a City Surveyor, George Dance
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Pig. 3c g160 I, G -t ? Detail from
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Robinson and Robert Whytt, amongst
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Appointments, patronage, sa1arie an
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and accounting of patients' fees an
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independent right to govern the hos
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At the beginning of the eighteenth
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London for seven years when appoint
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sity, and had accompanied his fathe
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een well groomed for the Bethlem po
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despite his preparedness to serve w
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not succeed his master directly to
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attendance from that of other physi
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the hospitals by checking the Apoth
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medical attention might occasionall
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predecessors to absenteeism. With t
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however, and the assessment of The
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with the Apothecary, the size of hi
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apprentices and staff of Bridewell,
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Nurse had a 'great practice in the
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Bride, where he was resident, in su
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estates to comfortably bring in an
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his appointment'63. Therapy or negl
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those admitted to the hospital, was
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idiculed and censured by his enemie
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give presentations upon numerous po
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the conduct of numerous demonstrati
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can hardly have been expected to ab
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Indeed, hunter and Macalpine did so
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(including the hire of 'a Midwife'
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Lunacy', but also for her 'sore leg
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he had performed, his quantifying o
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physical injury to patients. One mu
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sertion of Teresia Constantia Phill
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part of the century, the Board cons
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a great deal of cause for practitio
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the patient', and claimed that, not
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assessment that 'very little of rea
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negative in the extreme. Rather tha
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The revolution represented by St. L
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introduction of the therapy of cold
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Table 4c: BETIILEM & BRIDEWELL APOT
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Introduction Chapter 5 The Rule of
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and most reviled of all, while 'Bed
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however, this ruling was to be inst
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of the office, than with the profli
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father's social standing; 'a grave
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Nicholson, Jewson and others, have
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and servants. During the seventeent
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Nixon had formerly been basketmen,
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mittee of governors, prompted by a
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than the rule at Bethlem. At St. Ba
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Male and female servants alike were
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active governor, while Joseph Arnol
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of interest on the Governors' part,
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discharge, without any sign of disa
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Bridewell'31. Inferior officers far
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instead of increasing staff salarie
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While Bethlem servants' wages remai
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almost expected that Stewards would
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With Bethlem's resiting and expansi
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servants to care for them; at 1:17.
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side the Porter, he was also suppos
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were paramount as never before. She
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Matron, three basketmen and a singl
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personall Attendance is required bo
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a result220. Indeed, there are indi
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Naturally, attendance was healthier
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careers. Basketmen were found guilt
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is unknown2as. Between 1700 and 177
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Thomas Willis, writing in 1672, cur
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punishment as counter-productive, b
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Katherine Goodfellow of 'abuses...d
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eminence as a place of cruelty towa
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abuse of patients by Bethlem staff
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instructed to 'locke her upp in one
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The period of Langley's Stewardship
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of supplementing staff's meagre wag
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forbidden repeatedly not 'upon any
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Humphrey Withers Isaac Mount John H
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Table 5e: Bethlem Matrons (& Nurses
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Chapter 6 Patients, Obligors, and t
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als. The final section, on the subj
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weekly charge for patients, and the
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from 5/to 2/6 per week, a ceiling a
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insane, transferring or diverting m
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at the direction of Mr. Arnold, a g
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to Bethiem in 1654 at a weekly char
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compassion being eroded at the eigh
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Many obligors had, in fact, been mo
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(a friend of Tyson's and a writer o
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howse.. .[he] should have bene take
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in Figs 6d & 6e, which graph the se
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Prior to 1662, a year's residence h
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insane could be. The Bethlem Board
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acting on reports from persons unna
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abandonment of children described a
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handicapped105. It was the continue
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greater control over admissions aft
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ack home. When, for example, in 167
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Indeed, both Newell and Toote had b
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madhouses who complained bitterly o
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the appropriate action to be taken;
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other patients under severe threat
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to keep them at home or elsewhere w
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22 (or 22%) record that patients we
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desire for the cure of the afflicte
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the patient was provided for and 'r
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examine in any depth what the threa
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children & them Mischief'208. With
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numerous accusations of this nature
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one's own property was even less co
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ill of today attempt (or gain) acce
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1670-1762 after delivering letters,
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the scales of justice in the prison
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mirror on his accusers2 On the othe
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fined at Bethlem or elsewhere witho
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tunes earlier, such behaviour was l
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to look after them, but, if orphane
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members of the new Bethiem Committe
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and Bridewell. From the notorious b
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earthly, medical means. Moreover, w
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ate of female patients over male, f
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a similarly grim, if rather incompl
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months before her admission to Beth
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a temporary or exigency measure, un
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at Bethnal Green madhouse, and one
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hospital, over 22% of male admissio
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insensibility, to a prolonged, vege
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considered somewhat tautological. T
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did more for its public and paying
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Table 6b: Occupations Iwhere record
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Page 531 and 532: Table 6d: Occupations (where record
Page 533 and 534: 0 Q) Oi co ' ,- . I -- aci) (0 0, 0
Page 535 and 536: TABLE PE T ITI rs FOR A MISSION TO
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Page 541 and 542: C 0 Co Co E 0 CO CO cO -a-Cf) 1 0 C
Page 543 and 544: TABLEi(cQnt.l - DataOf Died' ______
Page 545 and 546: 7b1e O csrRc FO& '!NCUMPLE' PATIENT
Page 547 and 548: TABLE PATIENTS' TOTAL JURATION OF S
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Page 551 and 552: 4., '-4 El z 0p-I U) U) I-i ON
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Page 555 and 556: ality of Bethlem's ancillary staff,
Page 557 and 558: function of extirpation, or was the
Page 559 and 560: • AppendiX 2a(ii) Grand Committee
Page 561 and 562: Appendix 2a(ii) continued t1 é i12
Page 563 and 564: H11RLRUIK METHODIST. To the Tune of
Page 565 and 566: :.L Appendix 3a(i) George Dance 'B
Page 567 and 568: Appendix 3b Prices & Composition of
Page 569 and 570: , Ii_ 6?Jd'4 L nLJ;:. — i %, t 3f
Page 571 and 572: KNOW all Men by ihefe Prefents, Tha
Page 573 and 574: It is necefarj the following Partic
Page 575 and 576: .!$ • 4,tJOy C4a14 — -- - T II
Page 577 and 578: 7 Appendix 61 Certificate of settle
Page 579: Appendix 61(11 Letter from Sir Char
Page 583 and 584: To the Right Worj7ipful the PR E S
Page 585 and 586: Appendix 6p Petition for the admiss
Page 587 and 588: 6) Public Records Office:- PRO Kew
Page 589 and 590: John Gilbert, A Sermon Preached bef
Page 591 and 592: Thomas Arnold, Observations on the
Page 593 and 594: Thomas Dekker and John Webster, Wes
Page 595 and 596: the Real Art of Physick it self: an
Page 597 and 598: ______ Things Plain and Weighty, Re
Page 599 and 600: James Yonge, The Journal of James Y
Page 601 and 602: Michael V. Deporte, Nightmares and
Page 603 and 604: W. L. Jones, Ministering to Minds D
Page 605 and 606: ______ Was there a moral therapy in
Page 607 and 608: E. G. Thomas, 'The old poor law and
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