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This is a historical case note analysis of older patients admitted to the Warneford and Littlemore Asylums in nineteenth-century Oxford. Of 1044 admissions to the Warneford, 93 patients were aged over 60 (8.9%). At Littlemore, 998 of a total of 5464 admissions were aged over 60 (18.3%). High levels of psychopathology were found, as in other studies examining patients of all ages, and were similar for the two institutions. The largest difference was in the death rate, which was much higher for Littlemore Asylum. This resulted from the preponderance of patients with organic diagnoses who were admitted to Littlemore, many of whom died shortly afterwards. Keywords: diagnosis; history; hospitals; medicine; mental disorders; old age; psychiatry; 19th century Introduction There is now an extensive literature on the history of nineteenth-century asylums. Jones (1955) viewed the process as one of gradual reform and improvement, and Foucault (1967) as a means of social control and repression. Scull (1979, 1993) argued that ambitious but undervalued mad- Old and mad in Victorian Oxford: a study of patients aged 60 and over admitted to the Warneford and Littlemore Asylums in the nineteenth century GRAEME YORSTON* St Andrews Hospital, Northampton CAMILLA HA W St Andrews Hospital, Northampton History of Psychiatry, 16(4): 395–421 Copyright © 2005 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) www.sagepublications.com [200512] DOI: 10.1177/0957 154X0505407 9 * Address for correspondence: St Andrews Hospital, Billing Road, Northampton, NN1 5DG, UK. Email: [email protected] p e e r 0 0 5 7 0 8 2 5 , v e r s i o n 1 - 1 M a r 2 0 1 1 Author manuscript, published in "History of Psychiatry 16, 4 (2005) 395-421" DOI : 10.1177/0957154X05054079
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