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16-04-19, 07:32

Kit

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Lunatic Asylum

I just discovered my first cousin 4times removed was in a lunatic asylum for 18 years. The only census I can find shows that he was a lunatic as opposed to an imbecile.

What is the difference between the two?

He was in the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Lunatic Asylum. Has anyone heard of it and how bad would the conditions have been?

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