Home Creepy 10+ Vintage Portraits Of Victorian Lunatic Asylum Patients That Will Send A Chill Down Your Spine

10+ Vintage Portraits Of Victorian Lunatic Asylum Patients That Will Send A Chill Down Your Spine

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10+ Vintage Portraits Of Victorian Lunatic Asylum Patients That Will Send A Chill Down Your Spine

Mental Asylum was more of a circus back in the day.

And no, I don’t mean to make fun of the mentally ill. It’s just that asylums didn’t really treat their patients; they were more of a correctional facility to be honest. You see as prisons became overcrowded, many prisoners were sent to the asylum to complete their sentence.

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And so it is understandable that many asylums needed more money to function. So rather than doing something humane, they started to parade around their patients like a circus. And people would pay to visit asylums. And following are some of the most haunting pictures of mental patients in the era of Victorian England.

Source: Bethlem Museum of the Mind

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#1 Harriet Jordan.

Harriet Jordan

She was admitted in 1858 and was diagnosed with acute mania.

#2 Captain George Johnston.

Captain George Johnston

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He was admitted in 1846 with mania and charged with homicide.

#3 Unknown patient.

Unknown patient

#4 Esther Hannah Still.

Esther Hannah Still

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She was admitted in 1858 and diagnosed with chronic mania with delusions.

#5 John Bailey and his son Thomas Bailey.

John Bailey and his son Thomas Bailey

They were both admitted in 1858 with acute melancholia.

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#6 Unknown patient.

Unknown patient

#7 Eliza Camplin.

Eliza Camplin

She was admitted in 1857 and diagnosed with acute mania.

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#8 William Thomas Green.

William Thomas Green

He was admitted in 1857 and diagnosed with acute mania.

#9 A restrained criminal.

A restrained criminal

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#10 Unidentified female with acute mania.

Unidentified female with acute mania

#11 A female with chronic mania.

A female with chronic mania

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#12 Eliza Camplin.

Eliza Camplin

She was admitted in 1857 and diagnosed with acute mania.

#13 Unknown patient.

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#14 Unknown patient in blankets.

#15 Admitted to West Riding Asylum with chronic mania.

#16 Eliza Josolyne.

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She was admitted in 1856 and diagnosed with acute melancholia.

#17 Eliza Josolyne again.

Her picture was taken again in 1857 while in convalescence.

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#18 Unidentified patient.

He was admitted to West Riding Asylum and diagnosed with mono-mania of pride.

#19 Unknown patient.

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#20 Unidentified female patient with general paralysis.

#21 Unknown patient.

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#22 Criminal prisoner.

#23 Female mental patient.

She was admitted to West Riding Asylum in 1858 with acute mania.

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#24 Unknown patient.

#25 Unidentified female patient.

#26 Prisoner restrained by police.

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#27 Unknown patient.

#28 Name unknown.

#29 Female patient.

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#30 Fanny Barrett.

She was admitted in 1858 and diagnosed with intermittent mania.

#31 Eliza Griffin.

Eliza Griffin

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She was admitted in 1855 and diagnosed with acute mania.

#32 Unknown patient.

Unknown patient

#33 Unidentified patient.

Unidentified patient

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#34 Restrained female patient.

Restrained female patient

#35 Unknown patient.

Unknown patient

#36 Vintage photo of a female mental patient.

Vintage photo of a female mental patient

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