Welcome

Gathering the Jewels features over 30,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, archives and libraries throughout Wales.

Search the map

Thumbnail image of Wales,

New to Gathering the Jewels is G.I.S. A geographical search facility that will enable searching by location and place name.

Topics

Home » Health, Welfare and Charity » Hospitals and medical care » Mental illness

Displaying results 1 to 4 out of 4

Page 1

Portrait of an idiot, Carmarthenshire, by George O. Delamotte
Report of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum Committee of Visitors, 1887 [image 1 of 10]
  • In 1822 an Act was passed to convert the old Haverfordwest Town Goal and House of Correction into a lunatic asylum. Before that date, however, those suffering from mental illness were held in the County Gaol: two of the individuals who appear on this page are described as 'lunatics'.
Journal kept by the Surgeon at the County Gaol, Haverfordwest, 18 October 1820 - 2 June 1821 [image 6 of 147]
  • Letters, reports and petitions relating to the conduct of Elizabeth Dayrell towards her husband, William Morgan of Tredegar, in 1677.
The 'Madness' of Elizabeth Dayrell, 1677