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  • Facade of mental hospital, Nottingham.
  • Nurses at Saxondale mental hospital, Nottingham.
  • Nurses at Saxondale mental hospital, Nottingham.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: a view of the kitchen. Process print, 1926.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: a view of the visiting room. Process print, 1926.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: a view of the recreation hall. Process print, 1926.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: general view of part of the site. Process print, 1926.
  • Part of Claybury Mental Hospital seen from the grounds. Drawing by T. Hennell, ca. 1935.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: view of the facade of the administrative block. Process print, 1926.
  • Middlesex County Mental Hospital, Porters Park, Shenley: main elevation to the nurses home. Process print, 1926.
  • A retired habitation : a history of the Retreat, York (mental hospital) / by Harold Capper Hunt ; with a foreword by Bedford Pierce and a chapter by N. Macleod.
  • On the influence of abnormal parturition, difficult labours, premature birth, and asphyxia neonatorum, on the mental and physical condition of the child, especially in relation to deformities / by W.J. Little ..., Senior Physician to the London Hospital; founder of the Royal Orthopædic Hospital ... ; communicated by Dr. Tyler Smith.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: women patients (mentally ill?) having a meal in a ward, with three nurses. Photograph.
  • Mentally ill people at the Charité hospital sitting and looking at a piece of apparatus (camera?). Photogravure by C. Block after G. Moreau de Tours.
  • Infirmary ward for female patients, Prestwich.
  • Ward for convalescent female patients, Prestwich.
  • Ward for men, a mental hosptial in Britain.
  • Ward for women, a mental hosptial in Britain.
  • Aerial view of Horon Road Hospital, Gloucester.
  • Proposed asylum for imbecile poor at Caterham, Surrey.
  • "Ward in Hospital villa, Heath Asylum, Bexley". In the Royal College of Psyciatrists.
  • The twelth night entertainment in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum.
  • Mentally ill people in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.
  • Mentally ill people in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.
  • Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale after C. Cibber, 1680.
  • A distraught bare-breasted woman with staring eyes, straw in her hair and chained wrists, representing madness. Mezzotint by W. Dickinson, 1775, after R.E. Pine.
  • Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by A. Birrell, 1813, after T. Stothard, 1783, after C. Cibber, 1680.
  • A mentally ill patient with mask and hand restraints. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.
  • The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints / by John Conolly.
  • A mental ill patient in a straight jacket and strapped into a chair. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.