A letter to Lord Robert Seymour: with a report of the number of lunatics and idiots in England and Wales / [Sir Andrew Halliday].

  • Andrew Halliday
Date:
1829
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Credit: A letter to Lord Robert Seymour: with a report of the number of lunatics and idiots in England and Wales / [Sir Andrew Halliday]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The chief manufactures are lace and paper. The former has been long established, and employs most of the poorer class of females. A few are also employed in straw-plaiting; and there is a cotton manufactory at Amersham. The total «/ number of lunatics and idiots in this county is sixty-eight males and seventy-seven females. Nine males and sixteen females are reported dangerous. Eight males and thirteen females are in confine¬ ment (eleven in public, and ten in private asylums); but there is neither a public asylum nor any pri¬ vate establishment in this county. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Population . Males. Females.. .. 61 608 \ -’21,909 This is an inland county, extending about forty miles in length from north to south, and about twenty-five miles in breadth from east to west. A considerable tract of land in this county is distinguished by the name of the Isle of Ely, and consists of fenny ground, divided by innu¬ merable channels and drains. This level, it is supposed, was formerly overflowed in some vio¬ lent convulsion of nature. The air in this district is damp, foul, and unwholesome; but the south¬ east portion of the county is much more salubrious. The soil in the Isle of Ely is soft and spongy; but in the uplands, to the south-east, it is productive and well cultivated, and about three-fifths of the
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