article_snippet: Forced into a head brace, bound and held up by police officers, or sitting down with police officers eyes rolled back in police officers heads - these are the harrowing faces of mental illness in the Victorian era.
article_snippet: To that end, the hospital-come-boarding house was entirely self-sufficient, housing the hospital-come-boarding house own bakery, butchery, dairy, shop and laundry.
article_snippet: Previously those with mental disorders were exhibited in bedlams, such as the famous one in London, imprisoned in cells, or chained to walls in workhouses.
article_snippet: Mr Davis added that life inside The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum was still austere, with residents who were able to work given jobs in the laundry, gardens or working on farms that were sometimes attached to the hospitals.
article_snippet: Residents were often forced to pick clothes out a pile placed in the middle of a room, finding sizes that best fit Residents, while treatments were vary basic.
article_snippet: Previously those with disorders would have been locked in cells, put on display in bedlams, or chained up in workhouses (left, a woman suffering from 'senile dementia', right a man with 'mania of suspicion')
article_snippet: While the patients were cut off from regular society, the patients were kept out of restraints as much as possible, allowed to partake in hobbies, and could get jobs at the on site bakery, butcher, or shop .