| Description Of Item | Collection of notes under the heading ‘Juvenile Insanity’ from the collection of Thomas Laycock. Consists of several pages of handwritten notes, with several newspaper cuttings pasted in and a few separate sheets of notes inserted throughout.
The handwritten notes are detailed and relate to the general subject of Juvenile Insanity, particularly with regard to ‘Juvenile [Orexia]’, ‘Pubescent Dementia’ and suicide in children and young people.
Pasted into the pages are the following newspaper cuttings:
One newspaper cutting detailing the case of Elizabeth Watson, a young girl ‘not more than twelve years of age’ who was charged in Hull with theft and arson. The cutting appears to be from the 5 December 1863 issue of the Yorkshire Gazette.
Another newspaper cutting detailing the suicide by consumption of ‘spirits of salts’ [hydrochloric acid] by 12-year-old William James Webb. Webb had asked his father for a penny one night, was refused, and the next day consumed the poison and died from its effects. A version of this article was found in the 22 May 1868 issue of the Dundee Courier, but the exact source of this cutting is not known.
A newspaper cutting detailing the suicide by drowning of 19-year-old Augustus Andrews, who jumped from Waterloo Bridge into the river Thames ‘in a state of temporary insanity’. The source of the cutting could not be found.
A newspaper cutting detailing the suicide by shooting of a young man, approximately twenty years old, named Daniel McNee, of Stirling. The source of the cutting could not be found.
Inserted between the pages there are two separate pages of notes on blue paper, which appear to be a summary of the other notes, perhaps in preparation for a lecture or talk on the subject.
Another blue page inserted appears to be a case study of an 18-year-old, dated 1860.
There are several more handwritten notes on blue paper, which appear to be lecture notes relating to Juvenile Insanity. Much of the handwriting is not legible. |