History of Madness 16 - Dublin Edition: April 2016

In about six weeks, we set sail for Ireland, accompanied by Dr. Jekyll, the Narrator, and Laura. Adventures await us and challenges are before us.

Idiosyncratic Mad Timeline

13th C., Gheel Lunatic Asylum, Gheel, Belgium
1403, First "mad" intake, St. Mary's of Bethlem, Bishopgate, London, England
1728, Guy’s Hospital was established for chronic mental and physical illness, London, England
1747, Swift's Hospital for Lunatics is founded with money bequeathed by Jonathan Swift in Dublin, Ireland.
1773, Publick Hospital for Persons of Insane & Disordered Minds, Wiilamsburg, VA, English Colonies, N. America
1774, Madhouses Act, first attempt at regulation, London, England
1777, York Lunatic Asylum, York, England
1781, Montrose Lunatic Asylum, result of efforts by Susan Scott Carnegie, Montrose, Scotland
1784, Narrenturm, Vienna, Austria
1788, Bonifacio Hospital for the Insane, Vincenzo Chiarugi, Florence, Italy
1789, George III experienced remission, mental illness was recognized as something that could be cured and treated
1789, Cork Lunatic Asylum, Cork, Ireland
1792, Philippe Pinel became chief physician at Bicetre Hospital, Paris, France
1792, Liverpool Lunatic Asylum, Liverpool, England
1793, Philippe Pinel is credited as being the first to introduce humane methods into the treatment of the mentally ill, Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
1794, Leicester Lunatic Asylum founded by Arnold Thomas, Leicester, England
1796, York Retreat, York Quaker William Tuke established moral treatment, Lemel Hills, York, England
1800, Criminal Lunatics Act, required detention of insane person who commits a crime, London England
1812, Nottingham Lunatic Asylum, Nottinghamshire, England
1815, Richmond Lunatic Asylum, first public pauper asylum, Dublin, Ireland
1815-16 Parliamentary Select Committees established to investigate abuses at private madhouses, England
1841, Johann Jakob Guggenbuhl started the first retreat for mentally disabled children, Interlaken, Switzerland
1845, Lunacy Act 1845, established a system of asylum monitoring by Commissioners in Lunacy, important provision which formed mental health law, changed mentally ill people’s status to be considered patients, England
1845, County Asylums Act, established public network of county asylums with regulation, England
1887, Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran), intrepid journalist, committed herself to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island, New York City, US

History of Madness 16 - Dublin Edition

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

And So It Begins...