John Edward Gartside, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.

  • Crichton-Browne, James, 1840-1938.
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[1872]
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35082i
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West Riding Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire: photographs of patients.
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A young bearded man, identified as John Edward Gartside, a warehouseman from Roughtown, Mossley near Manchester. He was admitted to the West Riding Asylum in March 1872 as a bachelor aged nineteen. His insanity was indicated by "tearing his clothes, also bedclothes. Attempting to strangle his mother." He also "interrupted the service of the School Church by his incoherent manner". His case notes suggest that this photograph was taken in July 1872. He was discharged recovered in July, 1874 -- records in the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, Yorkshire, identified by David Scrimgeour, op. cit.

Publication/Creation

Wakefield : West Riding Asylum, Photographic Studio, [1872]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 9 x 5.5 cm

Lettering

Consecutive dementia Lettering hand-written in black ink on mount

Creator/production credits

The photograph may have been taken by James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938), the medical superintendent at West Riding Asylum 1866-1876. Crichton-Browne sent a similar set of photographs to Charles Darwin in or around 1869

References note

David Scrimgeour, 'Wellcome Library's "Anonymous patients" become proper people', David Scrimgeour blog http://www.davidscrimgeour.co.uk , 22 September 2016

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Wellcome Collection 35082i

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