Name Julia Lawton
No. of Admission 8979
Occupation Servant
Chargeable to Leeds
Admitted on the 22nd day of October 1883
Facts observed by: [?] James. Admitted to the Infirmary. She is excited and noisy. She is incoherent in her expressions. She refuses food because she thinks this has been poisoned. She has delusions that she hears the sound of her coffin being made; that she has seen a hearse and the devil coming into her room.
Other facts communicated:
Age 29. Single.
Religious persuasion Salvation Army
Previous Place of Abode 3 Bay House1st
Chapel Allerton
Nr Leeds
Age on First Attack 29
She has not been in any asylum, Insane a few days.
Supposed Cause Religious excitement not Epileptic probably Suicidal
Not dangerous to others
Name and Residence of nearest known Relative, Her father Charles Lawton, Wighill nr Tadcaster.
Wm Thos Carr Relieving Officer
Has No Children. Can read and write. No Relatives similarly affected
tear clothes: break windows: Not attentive to the call of nature:
habits temperate. Bodily disease
Statement sent to Commissioners in Lunacy
History Her first attack of only a few days duration. The attack is attributed to religious excitement. Patient is probably suicidal but not epileptic, or dangerous to others. She has been in service at Chapel Allerton for two years past and so far as the Receiving Officers are aware has been a fairly steady industrious woman. Her general mode of life however is little known to him but her latter career has been characterised by a somewhat erratic disposition and she has attended the service of the Salvation Army and become unduly excited thereby. She is regarded as pregnant by the certifying surgeon. She has been wildly excited on occasions and boisterous: she has refused food believing it to be poisoned. She fancies she hears sounds
