article_snippet: simple mania,’ and ‘acute melancholia’
article_snippet: Alongside each of the pictures are detailed notes including height, weight, religion, and eventual fate of the patient.
article_snippet: A diagnosis is also written on some images.
article_snippet: The collection includes over 5000 photographs of patients from the late 1860s onwards, putting a face to thousands of the patient numbers.
article_snippet: Others case files show patients were suffering from general health problems such as symptoms which would be recognised today as post-natal depression.
article_snippet: But while the project initially set out to improve the treatment of those with disorders, overcrowding and a lack of funding eventually led to horrible conditions developing, with several patients killed during disease breakouts inside the facility.
highlights_snippet: Each picture is accompanied by detailed medical notes and diagnoses including ‘imbecility,’ and ‘simple mania,’ 