Genre:

Regular Feature, Diary, Spoof

Subjects:

Psychiatry, Mental Illness, Sanitation, Public Health, Disease

    An allusion to the work of John Conolly, records that 'One got in at Hanwell, who seemed to be a Physician, and mighty pretty Discourse with him touching the Manner of treating Madmen and Lunatics, which is now by gentle Management, and is a great Improvement on the old Plan of Chains and the Whip'. Also records the 'Foulness of London for Want of fit Drainage' and its tendency to breed cholera and typhus.