Beveridge, Dr A. and Williams. M - Inside 'The Lunatic Manufacturing Company': the persecuted world of John Gilmour

Article reprinted from History of Psychiatry, 13 (2002), pp.19-49.

2002

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John Gilmour was a patient at Crichton Royal Institution from 1905 to 1913, he was also a contributor to the hospital magazine, the New Moon. Nine examples of his artwork were retained by either Dr J. Rutherford or Dr C. C. Easterbrook and was found in the back of C. R. I. Scrapbook, DGH1/6/17/1 which was compiled by Dr C. C. Easterbrook. Morag Williams was Dumfries and Galloway Health Board Archivist from 1983 to 2008 and also Crichton Royal Museum Curator from 1989 to 2004.

Artwork by artist patient John Gilmour can be found in 20th Century Patient Artworks and related material, DGH1/7/3/2/1-7

Enquiries for reproduction for commercial purposes should be directed to the Archivist, Dumfries and Galloway Archives and Local Studies

The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.