Sixth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1843.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum
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1844
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Credit: Sixth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1843. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ in the latter, the patient cannot hear the voice of conscience, while in the former, he has no conscience to hear.” It is well to know (though it can hardly he called satisfactory knowledge) that in this in¬ crease, alluded to before, we are by no means solitary sufferers: it appears to be almost univer¬ sally felt; and the general complaint of almost all our best regulated institutions is, that they are too small for the numbers requiring admis¬ sion. There are various causes which have been assigned for this; one maybe, that that which was formerly secret, is now much more made known and seen abroad. If, as residents, of an Agricultural County, we are free from others which are more prominent in manufac¬ turing districts, we see occasionally, in the shattered constitutions of some of our inmates, the effect of want, and the dread of want. This is apparent in some of our re-admissions also, particularly where any hereditary tendency exists; whatever induced the exhibition of the disturbance at first, is the most likely thing on earth to cause a relapse. The condition of patients on admission is at this time engaging the attention of the Legislature, whether it is not frequently such as to impede
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