The insane in 19th-century Britain: a statistical analysis of a Scottish insane asylum

'This paper deals with an insane asylum population in the second half of the 19th century in Glasgow, Scotland. First, it attempts to place the asylum within the mental health context of the time by determining the extent of the use of moral management, a popular method for treating the insane in the 19th century. The results indicate that, in keeping with widely-held views, moral management was u…