caa a22 4500 386354189 CHVBK 20180307111845.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0033291700010990 doi S0033291700010990 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0033291700010990 Mental illness and the late Victorians: a study of patients admitted to three asylums in York, 1880-1884 [Elektronische Daten] The case histories of the patients newly admitted to the Retreat Asylum in York between 1880-1884 were examined. Most patients were aged under 50 years, single and non-Quaker, and a majority satisfied the Research Diagnostic Criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia or affective disorder. It was found that 72·9% of the patients were deluded, the most common delusions being of persecution, grandeur and guilt; in 34·9% of the deluded patients, the delusion had a religious content. Suicidal ideation was recorded in the case records of 31·4% of the patients. Drug therapy was commonly prescribed, a history of assault on other patients or asylum staff was recorded in 38·1% of the patients, and 11% of patients were force fed at some stage during their illness. Within a year of admission 49·1% of the patients were discharged, the prognosis being better for patients with an affective illness than for schizophrenia, but 31·4% remained in the asylum for five or more years. The characteristics, alleged causes of mental illness, and treatment and outcome of the Retreat patients were compared with those of patients admitted during the same period to the two other York asylums which served different socio-economic groups of the population. Mortality rates were higher in the asylum admitting mainly pauper patients, and possible reasons for this are explored. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Renvoize Edward B. Bootham Park Hospital, York Beveridge Allan W. Bootham Park Hospital, York Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/1(1989-02), 19-28 0033-2917 19:1<19 1989 19 PSM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700010990 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700010990 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Renvoize Edward B. Bootham Park Hospital, York NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beveridge Allan W. Bootham Park Hospital, York NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/1(1989-02), 19-28 0033-2917 19:1<19 1989 19 PSM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge