sexual crime

[jizza]

Hello

am i correct in thinking that if a female was set to work in a mental asylum laundry.........that she had commited a crime of a sexual nature???
Thanks

[Lesley Robertson]

Hello

am i correct in thinking that if a female was set to work in a mental asylum laundry.........that she had commited a crime of a sexual nature???
Thanks


No. Why on earth would you think that?
Work was regarded as being good for you - she could have been of low IQ, or with some mental problem that didn't prevent her working. A few women who'd had children outside wedlock were (it's now being discovered) sent to asylums, but they were in the minority.

Lesley

[Peter Goodey]

As Lesley says, no.

In your last thread you were given plenty of advice on researching asylum records. How are you getting on with that?