Hi,
Aaron Kosminsky, der Verdächtige vom guten alten MacNaghten wurde NICHT 1888 in eine Nervenheilanstalt eingeliefert, sondern in ein Workhouse im Jahre 1890. Und er wurde daraus auch wieder entlassen (1890). Erst später endete er in der Klapse. Hier die Lebensdaten des Mannes:
Kosminski born in 1864 or 1865.
He came to England in 1882.
In 1888 he was aged 23 or 24 years.
He was unmarried.
His occupation was hairdresser.
His first attack occurred at the age of twenty-five.
He was admitted to Mile End Old Town Workhouse 12 July 1890. Assuming he was 23 in 1888, his admission to the workhouse coincided with his first attack.
He was admitted from 3 Sion Square, Whitechapel.
He was deemed to be able-bodied but insane.
Three days later [15 July 1890] he was discharged into the care of his brother[-in-law], Wolf’s care.
On Wednesday 4 February 1891 he was re-admitted to the workhouse.
He was admitted from 16 Greenfield Street, Whitechapel.
On Friday 6 February 1891 Dr. Edmund King Houchin of 23 High Street, Stepney, examined him at the workhouse.
Kosminski was declared of unsound mind ‘and a proper person to be taken charge of and detained under care and treatment.’
Henry Chambers J.P issued a committal order to that effect the same day.
On Saturday 7 February 1891 he was admitted to the County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch. In Dr. Houchin’s medical certificate it stated that ‘he declares he is guided & his movements altogether controlled by an instinct that informs his mind; he says he knows the movements of all mankind; he refuses food from others because he is told to do so, and eats out of the gutter for the same reason.’
Jacob Cohen of 51 Carter Lane, St. Paul’s informed Houchin that Kosminski ‘goes about the streets and picks up bits of bread out of the gutter & eats them, he drinks water from the tap & he refuses food at the hands of others. He took up a knife and threatened the life of his sister [Wolf’s wife?]. He says that he is ill and his cure consists in refusing food.
He is melancholic, practises self-abuse. He is very dirty and will not be washed. He has not attempted any kind of work for years.’
On the reverse of the committal order the Relieving Officer for the Western District of Mile End Old Town, Maurice Whitfield, noted that none of Kosminski’s close relatives were known to have suffered from insanity and that the cause of his illness was unknown.
It also stated that he was not suicidal or dangerous to other people. He was held there for the next three years during which time the staff altered the notes made by Maurice Whitfield deleting ‘unknown’ from the cause of his illness and changing it to ‘self-abuse.’
On13 April 1894 Kosminski was described as ‘demented & incoherent.’
On 19 April 1894 he was discharged to Leavesden Asylum.
On 24 March 1919 Kosminski died at Leavesden Asylum.
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