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An Address to the Trustees and Governors of the Warnford Lunatic Asylum, and the Gentry interested in the distribution of the Warnford Gifts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

William Ley
Affiliation:
Asylum for the Counties of Oxford and Berks

Extract

Mr. Lee has done good service, in calling attention to the noble charity provided by Dr. Warnford, for the insane poor of those classes whose education and position in society, would render the acceptance of relief from parochial funds, a painful degradation, and whose habits would render their residence in the wards of a pauper lunatic asylum, humiliating to themselves, and the source of difficulty and embarrassment in the arrangements of the institution. He says, with perfect truth, that the provisions for health and comfort supplied to the inmates of county asylums, are such as would not be deemed inadequate to the wants of the insane gentry. But the amalgamation of the two classes has been tried in several county asylums, with indifferent success; and public opinion, guided by experience, has now set strongly in the direction of providing for the educated and the uneducated classes in distinct institutions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1857 

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