Diagnoses Kew_Asylum
entrance gates , gatehouse of kew asylum, c. 1880. gate house demolished , gates moved victoria park, kew in 1930s or 1940s facilitate straightening of princess street.
the diagnoses given patients during kew s first fifty years common ailments found in lunatic asylums of pre-kraepelin era
delusional insanity
dementia
epilepsy
general paralysis/paresis of insane
idiocy
inebriation
melancholia
puerperal mania
it should noted of these terms still in use today, may have different meanings. example, examining notes on of kew s dementia patients, can deduced many suffering term severe depression, catatonia or schizophrenia.
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