Madness and industrial society : a study of the origins and early growth of the organisation of insanity in nineteenth century Scotland c.1830-70
Nineteenth century Scottish asylum records show that crude admission rates were increasing annually. Nevertheless, when these data are expressed as a percentage of the general population, they lose much of their statistical significance. Moreover, the statistics reveal that, on balance, the prevalen...
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University of Strathclyde
1981
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.257691 |