The State and Its Insane (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Rogers, Joseph Goodwin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1397316357 ISBN 13 : 9781397316356

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The State and Its Insane

The statistics showing this rapid proportionate increase of mental disease must, however, be considered in the light of the facts - first, that when the State was new enumeration was much more imperfectly done than at present, and, sec ond, that in newly settled territories the popula tion is mainly composed of the sound and vigorous, because the tide of emigration leaves the refuse stranded on the older shores from whence it starts. In no part of this country can the sociol ogist find statistics sufficiently free from acci dental error for accurate use in determining the actual increase of insanity in the world at large. Even in Great Britain, with its comparatively unvarying types of people and admirable meth ods of registration in use for many decades under the auspices of the Lunacy Commission, it is con ceded that the increase is more apparent than real therefore it is not to be assumed that within a period of sixty years the ratio of insane to population has increased from 1 in to 1 in 675. That it does increase slowly, however, isthe verdict of the most careful ysis of avail able facts. That it will continue to increase is inevitable unless society wakes to the danger and defends itself by permanently assuming the care of all insane, and by enforcing rigid regulations for the ablation of the predisposing and exciting causes of mental defect. To perfectly achieve a millennium of mental health may never be possible, but vigorous efforts have been and must continue to be made towards this end. With the spread of sociological knowledge has grown up a demand for protective measures, not simply against the unreasoning violence of the madman, but against madness itself. The demand is not only that the victim of mental disease be humanely and scien tifically cared for in proper hospitals, but that the germs and causes of the malady be rooted out of society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1397316357
• ISBN 13: 9781397316356
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 20
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