title: Asylum: Inside the Pauper Lunatic Asylums
author:  Mark Davis 
description: Mark is a keen social historian and has photographed Bradford from the core out for several years, recording the changing history of this great northern city. He is the owner of the Meanwood Park archive. Mark lives in Haworth, Bradford the home of the Bronte sisters.
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  _In the labourer and artificer class the lunatic is so far fortunate that,
  living from hand to mouth under the sweat of his brow, the outbreak of
  insanity generally pauperises him at once and throws the responsibility of his
  care and treatment upon the public authorities. The law of the land is
  admirably designed for his protection and welfare, and, if it be really
  carried out, the care and proper treatment of the pauper lunatic will be all
  that humanity and science can desire. He will be placed forthwith in one of
  the county asylums, a class of institutions of which our own profession and
  the community at large have every reason to be abundantly proud, and he will
  there receive care and treatment which his superiors in rank and wealth may
  well regard with jealous envy._
  
  
  Excerpt from _A Manual of Psychological Medicine_ ,
  
  
  
  
  
  by John Charl