| Description Of Item | Incomplete press cutting from an unknown source describing the number of ‘lunatics’ in asylums in England and Wales, and their crimes, including murder, concealment of birth, infanticide, maiming, stabbing, manslaughter, larceny, petty theft, burglary, and malicious burning. Includes information about the costs of their committals and the lengths of their sentences. From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |