Asylums In The 19th Century

The first public British psychiatric asylums began to surface in the early 17th century and were primarily advertised as institutions with curative treatments and benevolent therapies with an emphasis on humanity (Hand). With this implied affirmity that Victorian people’s mentally ill family, friends, and peers would be receiving sufficient care, these institutions gained a considerable amount of clientele in the 18th century. Other than the substantiate claims given by the asylums, not much was known to the public about the condition of patients in the 18th and 19th century because of the secrecy in which the asylums were held. Nonetheless, over time numerous records became publicized, with documentation of more than 840,000 patients committed