DETENTION HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE

The District Hospitals for the Insane in Ireland.—Superannuations

The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane

be applauded. It is enough to say that in appearance and arrangement it resembles the Index Medicus. One has to be less sanguine over the Beaumont index. The first question it raises is whether a computer is really necessary to produce a guide to a small archive of 400 documents; though one must in fairness recognize that the index is experimental in nature and intended to stir up comment. It i...

American Institutions for the Insane

We subjoin an able article from the pen of a distinguished American psychologist, Dr. Pliny Enrle, on the present state of the principal Asylums for the Insane in the United States of America.* It is taken from two consecutive numbers of Dr. Hay's ably conducted and excellent periodical, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. The reports upon which this paper is based are so difficult to...

British Institutions for the Insane

or superintendents of the different asylums. Amongst so many instructive reports, it is difficult to select wherewith to begin our analysis; nevertheless, we think Yorkshire merits precedence, being the largest county in England, as also on account of the great importance of its lunatic institutions, whereby so much benefit is conferred upon the general population. The first we would notice is ...

British Asylums for the Insane

We propose inaugurating our new volume by placing before our readers an analysis of the most recent reports of the British County Asylums. These annual records contain a vast body of useful general and statistical information in reference to the condition of the pauper portion of our insane population. These reports are not easy of access to many of our foreign subscribers, and it becomes, ther...