This is Bethlem Hospital, a psychiatric hospital situated close to where I lived in London. There is much history to this hospital, which first opened in 1337. Patients were chained to the floor back then for their safety and was named Bedlam. The noise was "so hideous, so great; that they are more able to drive a man that hath his wits rather out of them." I found it interesting the way that mentally ill patient were treated back then, they were called lunatics until the 1700's, in the 18th century people used to go to Bedlam to stare at the 'lunatics'. Visitors were permitted to bring long sticks with which to poke and enrage the inmates. In 1814 alone, there were 96,000 of these visits. The way that a collection of people are stereotyped and placed in a hospital chained up and forgotten about.
