Suggestions for the Use of Visitors to the Insane
Lockwood, Florence Bayard Excerpt from Suggestions for the Use of Visitors to the Insane: Being a Brief Essay on the Cure and Care of Insane PatientsDr. Wilbur remarks, that to one familiar with the reports of the British Boards of Lunacy, it is quite obvious that one of the leading tests of good management of an asylum, in the minds of the mem bers of the Boards, is the percentage of employment of the patients and its outcome in diminished occasion for seclusion and r...