The Padded Cell Part 2: the most frequent visitor
In the late nineteenth century the medical journals of Bristol Lunatic Asylum list which patients were placed in the seclusion room. The name which occurs most often was Hannah Llewellyn. Over a number of years starting in 1873 she was regularly placed there, usually the reason given was ‘excitement’ or ‘fighting’(Medical Journals, BRO 40513/J/7 and […]
