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St. Lawrence's Mental Asylum

By Kay Broadhurst & Sheri Matthews

Contents

Research Brief

Brief History

Context

Primary Sources

Findings

Outcome

Reflections

Acknowledges

Research Brief

What we decided to do and why.

Our direction?

  • The care of patients and changes in the asylum

Our outcome?

  • 2000 word article- local magazine

So how did this evolve?

  • Looking at class difference
  • Restricted time period

Brief History

A little bit more about the hospital.

'An act for the better care and maintenance of lunatics, being paupers or criminals in England.'

  • Opened in the summer of 1820.

  • 23rd June 1808 County Asylums Act:

  • Controlled by local lords and doctors.

  • 100s patients, paupers and private.

  • Disolved in 1948.

Context

What did our secondary research tell us?

  • Victorian England

  • Mental Health
  • Care of 'lunatics'
  • Public opinion of 'lunatics'

  • Cornwall in the nineteenth century
  • What was happening?
  • How this may have affected the asylum?

Primary Sources

Minute books, draft minute books and annual reports

Three most useful sources:

  • Visiting Committee Minute Books
  • Vast amounts of information
  • Limitations
  • Draft Visiting Committee Minute Books
  • Visitor Inspection Books

Primary Sources

Correspondence, Acts and rule books

  • Gave us extra information when used along side minute and inspection books
  • Another aspect of the asylum

  • Correspondence only show one side of communication

  • Missing medical case-books
  • Not enough information to include

Findings

Patient life

Patient social life:

  • Little mention in the beginning (1840s)
  • Time progresses:
  • Entertainment
  • Sea-side, picnics, parties, magic lantern, music, sports.
  • Care
  • Ventilation, heating, hot water, baths, food.
  • Quality of life:
  • Outside spaces, Chapel, paid jobs.

Findings

Running of the Asylum

  • Asylum had active relationship with other institutions;

-work-house

-Prison

  • Class difference;

-diet

-social aspects

-wards

  • Bassett fund

Final Outcome

2000 word article

  • Audience?
  • School leaving age reading level
  • Accessible
  • What did we include?
  • What did we exclude?

Reflection

Some of our main reflections

  • Some aspects we had to exclude because of time and other limitations;
  • Gender
  • Sampling
  • Visiting the site

Acknowledges

Thank you Deborah & The

Cornwall Records Office!

Thank you Anna!

Thank you for listening.

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