Janice
Only on the 1880 Census did they actually ask that question. On some of the other census they could be listed as inmates of a mental facility.
You might also find it in some court records. The inventory of my GGgrandfather John Gullatt's estate d. Aug 1824 was in the Lunacy Court in Jackson Co. AL, his oldest son WIlliam was named as his guardian. John Gullatt was originally from Fairfax Co. VA. If you had suffered a stroke and could not care for your affairs your estate would still probably end up in the Lunacy Court.
Clay
--- On Thu, 10/23/08, J Armstrong <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29
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Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 11:19 PM
Just out of curiosity, if you had not known of your great-grandmother's
condition through family sources, is there anything in census records that
would
have led you to her?
Janice
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Thanks, Ms. OBrion. I feel that recognition, treatments and results of
mental problems (or any other serious illness) are vital to understanding
our ancestors and their lives. My own G-Gmother was committed three times
over 30 years, the last commitment having been for life, and the diagnoses
were "mania" in one entry and "some lactation problem in
another. Was she
committed by her family? By a physician? Was she nutty or did harm to
anyone, thereby bringing about the "mania? What in the world did
"some
lactation problem" tell us about her life, actions and later
temperament??
Paul
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I'm not sure what this has to do with genealogy?
Katie Holland
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Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 1:25 PM
Free Event
Wednesday, October 29
Book Talk:
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the
World of Mental Illness
Time: Noon
Place: Library of Virginia Conference Rooms, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond
Author Jack El-Hai will discuss his groundbreaking new biography of
neurologist
and psychiatrist Walter Freeman, featured in the PBS documentary The
Lobotomist. El-Hai, whose work is based in part on archival research in
Freeman's personal papers at the George Washington University, takes
readers
into one of the darkest chapters of American medicine-the desperate attempt
to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help
during the middle decades of the 20th century, before the introduction of
effective psychiatric medication in the 1950s. A book sale and signing will
follow the talk.
This event is sponsored by the Library of Virginia Foundation, VCU
Libraries,
and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in celebration of Archives
Month in Virginia.
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