Household Words (1852) [ Practices ]
… themselves) of the general enjoyment which an audience of vulnerable spectators, liable to pain and sorrow, find in this class of entertainment. Not long before the Christmas Night in question, I had been told of a patient in Saint Luke's, a … and eighty-seven, men. Female servants are, as is well known, more frequently afflicted with lunacy than any other class of persons. The table, published in the Directors' Report, of the condition in life of the one hundred and seven …
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