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About Parkside Asylum
We are wanting to gain more information about our Parkside Asylum casebooks. At the moment we have digitised images but that is the only way we can interpret data from them. We want to use Zooniverse to create datasets that can be analyzed and searched within to draw conclusions about who ended up in these asylums and why.
Parkside Asylum housed people with issues such as epilepsy, keeping them out of workhouses and in a safer environment. The development of new drugs to help with depression; epilepsy; bipolar disorder and schizophrenia lead in part to today's deinstitutionalisation. As of 2015, none of the old-style asylums existed in the UK. For more information about this, read our project field guide.
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These volumes were originally digitised thanks to a bequest.
The records will be checked by a number of different people. Try to be as accurate as possible but know that submissions will be averaged out as a result of this process.
Please note that due to the nature of the records involved, you may find some of these documents upsetting. Historical records reflect the period in which they were created. The patient case notes show how much the approach to mental health treatment has changed since these records were first created. The terminology used to describe mental illness has also changed, with many of the terms used in the records now considered offensive.