Inside a Madhouse.

Frm N.Z. Tu-Biis. LBERT!' • Halloa.' ' Here's a good chance for an article for you. I have to go to a madhouse this morning on business ; if you care to come down >with me, well, I may [osably be able to get you over. , was accepted, for, like fe majority of my fellow-creatures, jelded rooms, strewed with straw and toted with ponderous chains, tajght-waiitcoats, and other similar wfeances, had hitherto appeared to win visions horrible, and the most nftageous ideas had crept into my iffldasto what the interior of a mad tea was like. We got there just in time to witness 6ft arrival of a man in a cab. 'He is just" coming in,"' whispered tyMeod, 'he is only mad on one put' Ask him quietly how much he *?' ■ I did So. 'Ha, ha!'the fresh arrival chuckled, Wmuchdol weigh? My dear sir,' declutched my coat sleeve, 'two wdrai and eleven stone ! Oh ! didn't Iwgji thecab down!' wery ward in the house was quite *ct and set apart from the others, handles of the doors were outside, every door was locked on the out *-'toq, while those leading to the Tf&l 'abodes were doubly secured, wine.of the wards were appropriated poses of slight insanity, and a peep loone of these rooms gave one the J&thatit was the ward of an ordinary pital. But, as we got further from entrance, we found wards •a were for the more dangerous, in these apartments the iurniture Si" 1012 Careful1 > selected > so as t0 J? a ?y possibility of the inmates *®l it Mo weapons of warfare, of these wards particularly inter rw. It was the room set apart « the very bad cases known as scutes. .

were a goodly number of them. imJ— reads ng» one was singing, «w man-poor fellow !—was seat- J'lJPer, the very picture of dcs- Jr , ™ one or two were excitedly p » room and muttering. Jn ac ? tes ' suffer from a form of j2 (J the very worst kind. They Slf y L have d °ne some great llistJ r thereforeare unfit to live. *d T e their dut y to commit %»S tbe y will watcl » f or every ipfso, doing. Of course, are closely watched a. o t? ™day and night, walk -4l ce P 1D g;and they live alone, the other inmates. . Outt^e worst case we have sir/ remarked one of the WiSf , n< J ddm g towards a middle %» '■ c can l a y his hand on ?fciul o ? er t0 make a^a y with Mtria r s deter mined to starve W tJ. Q f ath b y refusing to take any 'Can to force it down him.' a y tell w hen they are about to t*, * v attack, or are likely to "go 51es befo SOrae two or tliree of Ustn° re ' II Often takes three ° r S hm?, them off t0 the padded like myself, nearly all mad * houses are arm y J™ ,, !? of muscle is the gene-

Suddenly a terrible shriek was heard. 1 Somebody being being taken to a padded room,' said my friend. ' Come \yith me; , and, taking me by the arm, he led the way along the passage to what appeared to be the end of the building. In another minute I was testing the interior of a padded room. It must be confessed that, to the visitor who enters of his own accord, it is a decidedly comfortable place. Let me try and desciibe it. It was about 8 feet high by 8 or 9 feet wide, and was covered all over with substantial red leather, stuffed with horsehair, and without a seam. The reason for this was, that anybody forced to occupy it might not be able to tear the padding away. The floor was covered with a somewhat deeper padding, and the ends of the leather were so cleverly fastened and hidden from view, that destruction was almost an impossibility. When a man is very bad, blankets would be laid on the floor as well.

And now let me dismiss from the minds of many a very popular delusion. There is no iron grating through which the attendant may watch his prisoner, but the patients are left to themselves until they are thoroughly exhausted, then the door is opened and a visit is made. It is unnecessary to say that there is never more than a single occupant of a room at a time.

' What about straight-waistcoats ? Do you ever have to resort to them as a means of keeping a patient quiet ?' ' Oh ! they exist more in the imagina tion than in reality. Of course we have them here, but it is very seldom we have to use them. But come, gentlemen, you shall see a madman's dinner.'

Yes, here they were, marching two and two, chatting away, towards a large hall, Where they sat down on benches, and unquestionably proved that if they were deficient in sense, they certainly had not lost their appetites.

Some of them were most outrageously dressed, according to the personages they thought themselves to be, but the majority of the men wore corduroy trousers, blouses, and tweed coats, whilst the women wore neat cotton dresses. Knives and forks, too ! But there was an attendant to every eight or nine of them, who watched their every movement, and during dinner, several .of them were quietly led away to another part of the building. But those knives and forks were sticking in my mind. I could not ima gine a madman with such implements, and, turning to my friend, I questioned him on the subject. •These people youseehereare "safe," , he replied, 'and they are only insane on some matter, which does not prevent them eating their food like other human beings. Ask that man, sitting over there, who he is. He will reply. « I am the Emperor of Russia." That's his weak point. That man seated at the third table has a very peculiar mania. He wants to be continually giving away cigarettes, and his whim is humoured as far as possible. There are half-a dozen "queens" here, and as they happen to be all « of England» it is necessary to keep them apart, or they would declare war without loss of time, and fight out their claims with anything they could lay their hands upon. These people are considered «safe " and may be trusted with a knife and fork, but there are many men hereto have to be fed by the attendants. < Tell roe, , I asked, ' at what age do

! people mostly "go off," for I see some very young faces here ?' ' Between sixteen and eighteen, twenty-two and forty-two years of ago. See here, I have papers in my hand now which relate to a woman who has just died. She has been here for forty five years. So you see mad folk live to a good age sometimes.' The county asylums and similar insti tutions are bound by law to give an entertainment once a month to the patients, and, as we left the dining-room, we found ourselves in a spacious hall, fitted up with a stage and scenery, and capable of seating several hundred people. Here dances, dramatic enter tainments, etc., took place. Some of the better-class patients had formed themselves into a choral society, and concerts would be given in which all the singers and musicians would be insane, and their audience in the same condition. I told my friend how I had been present at a Madman's Jubilee at Colney Hatch, about two months ago, and heard a choir of insane women sing ' God Save the Queen,' ' Bonnie Dundee,' and 'Rule Britannia,' in a manner which would defy criticism, to which he replied, ' Oh! mad people are particularly partial to music ; but, come along, time's up. Now, then, are they such terribly wicked and every thing-that's-bad sort of places after all ?' 4 No, they certainly are not. I wouldn't mind Jiving in one myself.' ' Well, hope for the best—nil des perandum!'

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