Refugees and asylum seekers - gov.scot - Scottish Government Asylums in Glasgow: The buildings where madness was managed "to son"), Comments - sometimes about type of admission, whether a criminal, subsequent re-admission. help section. A page from MC7/1 showing patients resident in asylums on 1 January 1858. Lunatic asylums of various stripes nonetheless did appear across Scotland, if unevenly, solidifying into an overall national system, at least in the sense of being overseen from the late-1850s by a dedicated Scottish Lunacy Commission ( Andrews, 1998a ), tasked with inspecting, reviewing and, where possible influencing, the conditions of the We buy, sell, and trade LPs, CDs and cassettes, and we sell books, magazines and t-shirts, too. Scotland was one of themain UK areas Chilean refugeessettled in, besides London. https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/mental-healthcare(Wellcome Library Digital Collections: Mental healthcare. Cornwall Family History Society(St Lawrences Asylum, The Cornwall County Hospital for the Mentally Ill, by Sally Pocock). Images of past Scotland can present an inaccurate image of the country as exclusively white, but there have been peopleborn far from here, who came tolivein Scotland, and the UK, much farther back thanmost of us imagine. Admission Number: unique to an individual carried through from the first to subsequent admissions and other records in the MC Series held by the National Records of Scotland. www.findmypast.co.uk(Hampshire, Portsmouth Hospital Records, 1878-1918. She added: They wanted a historical perspective - to use history as a foundation that policy makers can draw upon to inform current and future practice and policy. Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad-Doctors & Lunatics: Tempus, 2006, Rorie, James. We are also fortunate to be able to hear refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland speaking about their experiences and lives in their own words, through oral history projects like Settled in Glasgow Oral History Archive and the British Librarys Listening Project. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. The report listed melancholia and despondency, monomania, acute mania, and chronic dementia as the reasons some patients were held at the asylum. The National Archives and The Wellcome Trust joint project listing repositories which hold records relating to a particular UK hospital or asylum. The records include: minute books, admission registers, medical case books and staff records. Scottish Indexes has indexed both record sets. Madness: A Brief History: Oxford University Press, 2002, Porter, Roy. Many records of asylums, prisons and houses of correction are kept in local archives and especially those of the patients and inmates. Mark. . Many of the East Asians in Uganda were Commonwealth citizens, so when Idi Amin expelled them from the country in 1972, close to 30,000 people fled at very short notice to the UK. Name of patient, occupation, diagnosis, date of admission, date of discharge or death and next of kin.