article_snippet: , all of them were patients at West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Yorkshire, in 1869.
article_snippet: These pictures, taken in 1869 at the West Riding Pauper Launatic Asylum near Wakefield, Yorkshire, show some of the patients interred there.
article_snippet: The West Riding Asylum, based near Wakefield, was the sixth institution of The West Riding Asylum kind in the UK to take those with mental conditions out of the way of regular society to a place of relative protection.
article_snippet: The patient on the left is recorded as suffering 'general paralysis', while the woman on the right has 'acute melancholia' The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum was actually comprised of four different hospitals, this sketch shows the building at Wakefield where these pictures were taken .
article_snippet: West Riding was one of the first institutions to treat the mentally ill.
article_snippet: While West Riding started out as a poor-house for the mentally ill, West Riding eventually became so successful and well-known that West Riding started taking paying residents (left, a woman with 'simple mania', and right another patient with 'mono-mania of pride')
article_snippet: The records kept at West Riding were so detailed and extensive that The records kept at West Riding are now recognised as being of huge historic and medical importance, and are protected by UNESCO.
article_snippet: Crichton-Browne (pictured) took over at West Riding in 1866 when he was just 26 years old, and ran it for the best part of a decade.
article_snippet: Under the guidance of Crichton-Browne West Riding Asylum went from being a centre to house the poor and mentally ill to taking paying patients who were afraid of being taken elsewhere.
article_snippet: Two men interred at West Riding Asylum are pictured.