The Moon affects Earth in several ways. The first and most obvious is through the provision of moonlight, with a full Moon coming around every 29.5 days, and a new Moon following 14.8 days after that. Then there’s the Moon’s gravitational pull, which creates the ocean tides that rise and fall every 12.4 hours. The height of those tides also follows roughly two-week cycles – the 14.8 day “spring-neap cycle”, which is driven by the combined pull of the Moon and Sun, and the 13.7-day “declination cycle”, which is driven by the Moon’s position relative to Earth’s equator. Davis, Mark & Kidd, Marina. Voices from the Asylum: West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum: Amberley Publishing, 2013 The Trustees made grants available for the improvement and encouragement of fishery and manufactures and particularly the linen industry. After the regulation of the linen industry was abolished in 1823, the board turned its funds to other purposes: the decorative arts and the encouragement of education in the fine arts. In 1906 its functions were transferred to the Trustees for the National Galleries under the National Galleries of Scotland Act. The records of the Board (NRS reference NG1) cover the period 1727-1911 and include minutes, letter books, reports, accounts, salaries and cashbooks. www.wakefieldasylum.co.uk (Stanley Royd Hospital: Digital archive dedicated to the former Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield) Records of lunatic asylums are not held in any one place and often not all their records have survived.Many records ofasylums, prisons and houses of correction are kept in local archives and especially those of the patients and inmates. However, most patient files have been destroyed.

A covering note by Roderic Lyne, Major’s principal private secretary, informed the prime minister: “What this tells us speculatively is that the French may have done some sort of a deal but we don’t know for sure and they are denying it.” In turn, Major added a handwritten comment: “possible … but I doubt it was as firm as a deal”. www.ancestry.co.uk (Glamorganshire, Wales, Glamorgan County Ayslum Records, 1845-1920. This collection contains asylum registers for Cardiff, Wales from 1845 to 1920. Included within this database are admission and discharge registers, burial records, and indexes to case notes)The Royal Naval Hospital in Yarmouth was also a major hospital for naval lunatics and searches with the hospital name in our catalogue will return document references for various records. Jones, Kathleen, Law and conscience, 1744-1845: the social history of the care of the insane (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1955) What we urgently need, not only for the sake of patient, not only for the sake of his relatives, but for the sake of humanity, and for the sake of true economy, is greater elasticity to treat the early symptoms of this disease, to treat them during the stages when an accurate diagnosis may not yet be possible, and before the disease has become chronic. Footnote 97 www.ancestry.co.uk (London, England, Poor Law and Board of Guardian Records, 1738-1926. This collection includes a huge variety of different records created as a result of the Poor Laws in London, including Registers of lunatics) Serbia’s president, Slobodan Milošević, France’s president ,Jacques Chirac, and Bosnia’s president, Alija Izetbegović, in October 1996 during Bosnian peace talks. Photograph: Gerard Fouet/AFP/Getty Images

Early, Donal, F. ‘The Lunatic Pauper Palace’: Glenside Hospital Bristol 1861-1994: Its Birth, Development and Demise: Friends of Glenside Hospital Museum, 2003 https://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/Newsletters/150yearsofFairfieldHospital.aspx (Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service: 150 years of Fairfield Hospital [Three Counties Asylum]) Correspondence on Caledonian and Crinan Canals, 1803-1950 (MT1); Western Highlands and Islands steamer services, 1925-62 (MT2). Stevens. Mark. Life in the Victorian Asylum: The World of Nineteenth Century Mental Health Care: Pen & Sword Books, 2020The 1890 Act impeded such lucrative business in two ways. First, it discouraged prospective private patients and their families from applying for admission to private asylums because legal certification required them to involve the juridical bench whom they would usually approach only in criminal cases. For this reason, a significant number of patients were sent to illegal nursing homes. In the investigation into the violation of Section 315 of the 1890 Act, the Board of Control found that illegal nursing homes flourished. In the 1900s, it reported a case of a woman suffering from intermittent delusions whose family sent her to St. John’s Nursing Institute, a private nursing home, in Upper Holloway in London. Footnote 23 The lunacy law limited treatment for patients with delusions to registered asylums and charitable hospitals, but her family admitted the woman to the illegal nursing home by pretending that she had only mild mental symptoms. Her family thought that it was humiliating to let her be certified legally as a lunatic. Interestingly, the patient’s cousin remarked to the police that if he had his cousin certified as a lunatic, he would be blamed by other relatives, so the only option was to have ‘taken her to some other place …not had her certified’. Footnote 24 Official visitors’ reports on Chancery lunatics, from 1879 (with a 75 year closure) are in LCO 10. They provide