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The Ennis District Lunatic Asylum and the Clare Workhouse Lunatic Asylums in 1901

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Dermot Walsh
Dermot Walsh*
Affiliation:
Mental Health Research Unit, Health Research Board, An Bord Taighde Sláinte, 3rd Floor, Knockmaun House, 42-47 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
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*Correspondence E-mail: dwalsh@hrb.ie
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Abstract

The 1901 Census of Population returns provide a unique opportunity to examine the broad characteristics of institutionalised mental illness in one county over a century ago by complementing and extending the information contained in the main statutory source, the Report of the Inspector of Lunacy. This paper presents these characteristics as they relate to the first area on which such data have become publicly accessible - County Clare.

Type
Historical
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 206 - 211
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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