Interest surrounding the Victorian county asylum network and its treatment of mental illness has been, and still remains, somewhat substantial. This article will add to, and expand, the existing literature by redressing the geographical imbalance of previous institutional research. Asylum histories have centred upon establishments in prominent towns and cities, and on those with an importance to the evolution of the psychiatry profession, for example the York Retreat. Apart from the examinations of Lancashire and Yorkshire asylums, little exists in the far North of England. This article will specifically use the records of the Cumberland and Westmorland Joint Lunatic Asylum to show the experience of pauper patients from a rural, Northern locality. Particular attention will be paid to the circulation of patients in and out of the asylum to build a comprehensive picture of the nineteenth-century transferral of care. To fully understand the treatment of mental health in this period, one cannot solely look at the asylum, as it formed only one part of a whole system of care.

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一个未被发现的维多利亚式护理机构：坎伯兰和威斯特摩兰联合疯人院的简短介绍

围绕维多利亚州县庇护网络及其治疗精神疾病的兴趣一直并且仍然是相当大的。本文将通过纠正先前机构研究的地域不平衡来补充和扩展现有文献。庇护历史集中在著名城镇的机构，以及那些对精神病学专业发展具有重要意义的机构，例如约克撤退。除了对兰开夏郡和约克郡庇护所进行的检查外，在英格兰最北部的地方几乎没有。本文将专门使用坎伯兰和威斯特摩兰联合疯人院的记录来展示来自北方农村地区的贫困患者的经历。将特别关注患者进出庇护所的循环，以全面描绘 19 世纪的护理转移。要充分了解这一时期的心理健康治疗，不能只看庇护所，因为它只是整个护理系统的一个组成部分。