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The Cottage System of Management of Lunatics as practised in Scotland, with Suggestions for its Elaboration and Improvement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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The more general adoption of the “Cottage System” for the boarding out of harmless and incurable lunatics is regarded by many as the only remedy for the increased demand for Asylum accommodation, for the reduction of expenditure, and for the prevention of the overgrowth of Asylums. In Scotland the suggestion meets with the approbation of high authority—in England it does not. I have experienced no small reluctance in coming forward now to express my opinion of the working of the system as it now exists in Scotland, and to narrate my experience of it derived from actual inspection; but conceiving it to be a fair field for discussion, I enter upon it in the full hope that, however much my views may militate against the opinion of the advocates of the “Cottage System,” they will be accepted as unbiassed by aught but a desire to promote the welfare of the lunatic and the public at large.
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∗ Lunatic wards of City Poorhouse, Edinburgh.Google Scholar
∗ Appendix to the Ninth Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland. Page 148. The italics are my own.Google Scholar
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