Asylum in the Long Nineteenth Century

Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz is a Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga, Spain. She has specialised in the social and cultural history of deviant women and children in Victorian England, and her research interests have since expanded to contemporary gender and sexual identity issues in Neo-Victorian fiction.Steven King is a modern British historian with primary research interests in the period from 1750 to the present. He is best known as an historian of welfare, writing on topics such as regional welfare regimes, the agency of poor people and welfare claimants, advocacy for the poor, and the particular experiences of the sick and disabled under the British welfare system from 1601.Professor King joined Nottingham Trent University in 2020. He has previously held posts at the University of Leicester, Oxford Brookes University, the University of Central Lancashire and the Institute of Historical Research. Steven Taylor, University College Dublin, is a historian of health, medicine, and welfare with a focus on drinking culture and substance use amongst the Irish communities of London and New York. He has previously taught at the University of Kent (Lecturer in the History of Medicine) and University of Leicester (Teaching Fellow) where his modules have focused on medicine, health, disability, and welfare from the eighteenth century.

• Volume I: Lunatic AsylumsGeneral IntroductionVolume 1 IntroductionSource DetailsPart 1. Letters regarding the 'mad poor' from families, officials, advocates, and poor writers under the Old Poor Law, 1800-1834Part 2. Vestry Minutes and Vestry Correspondence, 1800-1835Part 3. Letters regarding the 'mad poor' from families, officials, advocates, and poor writers under the New Poor Law, 1834-1906Part 4. Billington Private Asylum RecordsPart 5. Leicester Borough Asylum: Records of the SuperintendentPart 6. Leicester Borough Asylum: Records associated with Medical StaffPart 7. Leicester Borough Asylum: Patient RecordsPart 8. The New Poor Law: Certificates to Detain Lunatics in the WorkhouseIndexVolume II: Magdalen Asylums, Lock Hospitals and Lock Asylums in England in the Long Nineteenth CenturyDedicationAcknowledgementsGeneral Introduction: The Asylum in the Long Nineteenth CenturyIntroduction to Volume 2: Magdalen Asylums, Lock Hospitals and Lock Asylums in England in the Long Nineteenth CenturyPart 1. Lock Hospitals in England and the Dublin Lock Hospital: their functioning and ethos 1. Westmorland Hospital Report and Appendixes. A Report upon Certain Charitable Establishments in the City of Dublin which Receive Aid from Parliament, 18092. Patients’ Diet3. Mrs. Charlotte Ramsden’s Bath Penitentiary and Lock Hospital Report 1818 and Rules and Regulations for General Management4. 1821 Hospital Diet5. The Laws of the Lock Hospital and Asylum 1840 (revised 1848)6. Rules for the Government of the Liverpool Lock Hospital 18547. Report of the Lock Hospital, Asylum, and Chapel, 18578. The Annual Report of the Manchester and Salford Lock Hospital 1863 and ‘Rules of the Manchester and Salford Lock Hospital’9. Copy of Correspondence between the War Office and the Reverend Mr. Dacre, late Chaplain of the Colchester Lock Hospital10. Report of the Bristol Old Park Lock Hospital For the Treatment of Women Only 1878 and ‘Accounts’11. Report of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum and Lock Hospital for the Year 1882, ‘Form of Bequest’ and ‘Form of Recommendation’12. Rules and Regulations of the Westmorland Lock Hospital 1885, Revised 190813. Report of Inspection of Lock Hospital, Made, without Notice, on July 10th, 1890William Findlater and L.H. Ormsby14. Laws of the London Lock Hospital and Asylum (Rescue Home) 1890Part 2. Lock/Magdalen Asylums in England: their functioning and ethos15. ‘Inmate’s Commitment’, York Penitentiary16. York Penitentiary Rules17. Introductory Report of the Society for the Establishment of a Magdalen Asylum in Liverpool, Instituted October 25, 180918. An Account of the Nature and Intention of the Lock Asylum for the Reception of Penitent Female Patients When Discharged from the Lock Hospital, 182419. ‘Letters’, An Account of the Lock Hospital20. The 1840 Report of the Cambridge Female Refuge, ‘Form of legacy/donation’, and ‘Rules’21. ‘Asylum Regulations’, Laws of the London Lock Hospital and Asylum1840 (revised 1848)22. A List of Prices of Needle-work done at the Lock Asylum, c.184423. ‘Rules and Regulations’ and Bath Penitentiary Thirtieth Report: With an Alphabetical List of Subscriptions and Donations during the Year 184524. The 1854 Report of the Cambridge Female Refuge, ‘Form of Legacy’, ‘Accounts’ and ‘Terms of Washing and Needlework’25. The Second Annual Report of the Hull Temporary Home for Fallen Women, 186226. The Report for the Year 1863, of the York Penitentiary Society and ‘Rules’27. ‘Letters’, The 1865 Report of the Cambridge Female Refuge28. ‘Letters’, Report of Lock Hospital and Asylum 187029. Sixth Report of St. Mary’s Home House of Refuge and Penitentiary, 1871,30. ‘Young Women in the Asylum’, Report of Lock Hospital and Asylum 187231. The Report of the Bristol Female Penitentiary or Magdalen House for its 82nd Year, 188332. ‘Asylum Regulations’, Laws of the London Lock Hospital and Asylum (Rescue Home) 189033. Report of the Liverpool Female Penitentiary for 1890 and ‘Accounts Liverpool Female Penitentiary Minute Book34. ‘Standing Rules’, The Thirty-Seventh Report of the Albion Hill Home Brighton, 1891, ‘Letters’, and ‘Laundry and Needlework’35. ‘Cases’, The 1895 Report of the Cambridge Female Refuge36. Statutes of the Newcastle Diocesan House of Mercy, 189737. Eightieth Annual Report of the Devon and Exeter Home of Refuge, 190038. ‘Letters’ and ‘Form for Legacies’, Fifty-second Annual Report of the Lincoln and Lincolnshire Home, 1901Part 3. Medical texts on venereal disease and its treatment39. Observations of the Effects of Various Articles of the Materia Medica in the Cure of Lues Venerea: Illustrated with Cases, 1800John Pearson40. A Treatise on Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases; Containing Plain and Practical Directions for the Effectual Cure Of All Degrees of the above complaints, 1819John Lignum41. Prostitution Considered in its Moral, Social and Sanitary Aspects in London and other Large Cities and Garrison Towns, 1857William Acton42. Record of Cases Treated in the Lock Hospital by Syphilisation, 1867James R. Lane and George G. Gascoyen43. Report of Cases under Treatment in the Westmorland Lock Hospital, 1868John Morgan44. An Epitome of the Venereal Diseases Being a Succinct Account of the Well Established and More Important Facts Relating to These Diseases, 1868Alexander Bruce45. On the Prevention of Contagious Venereal Disease, 1869James R. Lane46. A New View of the Origin and Propagation of the Venereal Disease, 1870J. Morgan47. The Extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts to Liverpool and other Seaports Practically Considered, 1876Frederick W. Lowndes48. ‘On the Administration of Mercury’, Selection from the Works of Abraham Colles Consisting Chiefly of his Practical Observations on the Venereal Disease and the Use of Mercury, 188149. Lock Hospitals and Lock Wards in General Hospitals, 1882Frederick W. LowndesPart 4. Acts and legal texts: the regulation of prostitution and venereal disease50. Vagrancy Act 1824, Section III51. Town Police Clauses Act 1847, Sections XXIX and XXXV52. ‘The Contagious Diseases Act 1866’, Report of the Committee Appointed to Enquire into the Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Disease, 186853. The Contagious Diseases Act of 1866 and its Extension to the Civil Population of the United Kingdom, 1868J. Brendon Curgenven54. A critical summary of the evidence before the Royal Commission upon the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1866-186955. Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Contagious Diseases Act, 186656. On the failure of the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1881James Stansfeld57. Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, Parts I and IIPart 5. Newspapers and journals: the perception of prostitution, reform and venereal disease58. Clinical Records of the Lock HospitalHenry Lee59. The Lock Hospital Dinner60. The Extension of the Contagious Diseases Act of 1866 to the Civil Population61. Notes on the Practice of the London Female Lock HospitalJames R. Lane62. The Liverpool Lock Hospital and the Prevalence and Severity of Constitutional Syphilis in LiverpoolFrederick W. Lowndes63. The Contagious Diseases Acts. To the Editor of the LancetEdgar Beckett Truman64. Westmorland Lock Government Hospital. Notice to Contractors65. The Maiden Tribute of Modern BabylonWilliam T. Stead66. Lock Hospitals Statistics67. Hospital Nurse Wanted68. Westmorland Lock Hospital. Election of Surgeon69. Westmorland Lock Government Hospital. Election of Resident Medical Officer70. Westmorland Lock Hospital: Formal Opening of the New Hospital Chapel71. Bristol Female Penitentiary Annual Meeting72. The Liverpool Lock Hospital73. Lock Hospitals and Lock Wards. To the Editors of the LancetFrederick W. Lowndes74. The Liverpool Lock Hospital. To the Editors of the LancetS. J. Ross75. Bristol Female PenitentiaryBibliographyIndex