| Description Of Item | A press cutting from The Scotsman about James Coxe’s paper ‘On the Condition of the Insane as influenced by Legislation’, read to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by Andrew Mitchell. The paper criticised the Poor Law and the arrangement of asylum admittance. The item comprises two article columns pasted together. The text at the bottom of the right column is faded in places and thus illegible. From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |