Author: [WILLIAM JENKIN]
Title: Declaration of Insanity.
Description: Manuscript, 1829. 2 items. Each 335 x 210 mm. The first, signed by John Ward, surgeon, declaring that upon examination he finds William Jenkin to be of insane mind. The second, signed by Joseph Pomery, Clerk to the Justices of the Peace, addressed to the Overseers of the Poor for the Borough of Bodmin, Cornwall, directed William Kenkin to the County Lunatic Asylum in Bodmin. Up until 1834 under the old Poor Laws, the insane were generally treated as paupers with the same needs of relief, and only in the later period were they sent to asylums where such existed. Following the new Poor Law of 1834 more asylums were built but were still mostly used for incarceration and restraint rather than treatment.

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