Book Description

This work provides a glimpse of psychiatric care given to the mentally unstable during the early 1900s explaining how the medical officers gave internal care in those times when society was far more rigid about these illnesses than in the present times. It presents an accurate account of all the facilities provided to the patients, the tasks they were assigned, and its effect on their mental health and overall functioning. These chores mainly included indulging the patients in farming, cultivation, etc. The subject of this report deals with employment as a means of treating and caring for the mentally ill in need of help, and the colony here is an instrument of finding practical and profitable work for the patients. Colony treatment means establishing buildings at some distance from the central hospital and admitting psychiatric patients there to be under the control and management of the hospital officers.