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THE LUNACY COMMISSION,
A STUDY OF ITS ORIGIN, EMERGENCE AND CHARACTER
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Then a chapter is devoted to each commission:
In each chapter, summaries of relevant legislation are
referenced so that: 4S refers to the legal summary in chapter 4.
Clicking on a lion usually takes you to a legal summary
As the thesis is concerned with the establishment of the Lunacy Commission,
the time frame of the main chapters is 1774 to the years immediately after
1845. The biographies and
bibliographies that follow are not restricted to this period. These and the
mental health history
timeline can be used to locate the thesis in a broader context.
Mental health history
words is the glossary and conceptual index.
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Chapter 6 is a Directory of
Commissioners, with biographies
The directory covers all commissioners from 1774-1912. There are
biographies for all commissioners from 1828 to 1912. The charts
locate commissioners from 1774 to 1960.
Chapter seven
includes a
England (and Wales) at the start of the 19th century was a country governed
locally by
magistrates who met in Parliament to discuss their common affairs. England
at the end of the 19th century was a centralised nation with a subordinate
system of local government. In one area, at least - the government of
lunacy - the change from local to national government was sudden,
unexpected and unplanned. From 1774 to 1842 the organisation of mental
health was parochial. In 1845 the nation found itself with a national
Lunacy Commission and a national lunacy policy. This is a study of how it
happened.
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Sections index
1,
1.2,
1.2.1,
1.2.1.TA,
1.2.2,
1.2.3,
2,
2.1,
2S,
2.2,
2.3,
2.3.1,
2.3.2,
2.4,
2.5,
2.5.1,
2.5.2,
2.5.2.1,
2.5.2.2,
2.5.3,
2.6,
3,
3.1,
3.1.1,
3.1.2,
3.1.3,
3.2,
3S,
3.3,
3.3.1,
3.3.2,
3.3.3,
3.3.4,
3.3.5,
3.3.6,
3.3.7,
3.4,
3.4.1,
3.4.2,
3.4.4,
3.4.5,
3.4.6,
3.5,
3.6,
3.6.2,
3.6.2.TA,
3.8,
3.8.TA1,
3.8.TA2,
3.8.TA3,
3.9,
3.9.1,
3.9.2,
3.9.3,
3.9.4,
3.9.5,
3.10,
3.10.2,
3.10.3,
3.11,
3.11.2,
3.11.3,
3.11.4,
3.12,
3.13,
3.14,
4,
4.1,
4.2,
4.3,
4.3.1,
4.3.2,
4.3.3,
4.3.4,
4.3.5,
4.4,
4.4.2,
4.4.3,
4S
4.5,
4.5.1,
4.5.2,
4.6,
4.6.1,
4.6.2,
4.7,
4.7.2,
4.7.3,
4.8,
4.8.1,
4.8.2,
4.8.3,
4.8.4,
4.8.5,
4.8.6,
4.8.7,
4.8.8,
4.8.9,
4.8.10,
4.8.11,
4.9,
4.9.1,
4.9.2,
4.9.3,
4.9.4,
4.9.4.TA.1,
4.9.4.TA.2,
4.9.4.TA.3,
4.9.5,
4.9.6,
4.9.7,
4.9.8,
4.9.9,
4.9.10,
4.9.X,
4.9.Y,
4.10,
4.11.1,
4.11.2,
4.11.3,
4.12,
4.13.TA,
5,
5.1.1,
5.1.2,
5.1.3,
5S,
5.2,
5.2.5,
5.2.5,
5.2.5,
5.2.5,
5.2.5,
5.3,
5.3.2,
5.3.3a,
5.3.3b,
5.3.3c,
5.3.3d,
5.3.3e,
5.3.3f,
5.3.3g,
5.3.3h,
5.3.3i,
5.3.4,
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