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West Riding Lunatic Asylum Patient

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Daniel Pinna

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05/02/2018

West Riding Lunatic Asylum Patient

Taken in the late 1860's or early 1870's at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum located in West Yorkshire England in a city called Wakefield. It is unknown what this patient might have suffered from at the time. Up through the 1900s people suffering from mental conditions were often restrained using apparatus such as this in asylums both in European and USA..

Date & Place: 1869 at West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, West Yorkshire County, England United Kingdom

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Daniel Pinna

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05/02/2018

What were called lunatic asylums are now called Psychiatric hospitals.

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