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clr1979
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« on: Friday 13 August 04 15:50 BST (UK) »
I've got to ask this, but its going to be a stupid question.

If you were listed as being a "Lunatic" on a census, what was wrong with you? And why would you not be in an assylum?

Told you it was a stupid question.
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« Reply #1 on: Friday 13 August 04 16:12 BST (UK) »
Its not a stupid question,  it is a lunatic question.   Grin

We discussed this recently and the definitions were given in this thread:

http://www.rootschat.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=4624.0

If that does not answer your question give us another shout.

Kazza.
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« Reply #2 on: Friday 13 August 04 16:50 BST (UK) »
Hi
   If you have a couple of weeks to spare and the interest these three sites are brilliant

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_TA.htm

http://www.institutions.org.uk/

http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm

or save them for a rainy day.

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Re: Lunatic?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 13 August 04 18:23 BST (UK) »
ALSO
Then when it says disabled !
                                      What degree Huh
                               ie not fit for work ?? Undecided
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« Reply #4 on: Friday 13 August 04 18:57 BST (UK) »
I don't know if they felt they had concrete answers then, but it's certainly a very grey area today and subject to a lot of argument.

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« Reply #5 on: Friday 13 August 04 21:53 BST (UK) »
Everyone,

Thanks for the help, I think I know what I'm looking at now.

Thanks.
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« Reply #6 on: Friday 03 September 04 23:16 BST (UK) »
I know I'm a bit late with this one, but I've only just read it.  I went through the Rainhill census and what I discovered was that nearly all the women were married under thirty (probably post natal depression) or over 50 (menopausal, and after having dozens of kids, no money, maybe an abusive husband) so being classed as a lunatic was unforgivable as these women today would have proper medication and counselling to help them through their depression. Most of the men had professions, so I can only hazard a guess that they were stressed out with all the work trying to keep kith and kin together, or drink had got the better of them.  It's hard to say, but it was very sad to see so many people in these institutions called lunatics because they had reached the end of their tether.
I only found a Grt Grandaunt yesterday on 1891 censu whom I'd lost from 1881, she was in Barton Institution blind for 25 years.  Very very sad as I had followed her life from being a young girl to end up thus.
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