Table of Contents

Socio-legal history and asylums; Poor Law and Asylum Law as a single strand; the legislation of pauper lunacy; the pragmatics of co-existence - local officials and pauper lunacy; local administration - the creation of coherence among misfits; the Lunacy Commission and the soft-centre of reform; conclusion - asylums, poor law and modernity. Appendices: quantitative indicators; Leicestershire statistics; dietaries, Leicester Asylum and Leicester Workhouse; forms of admission documents and case books.