Astral Codex Ten

England and Wales

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England and Wales

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England and Wales is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between June 10, 2021 and May 24, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “by the end of the century there were as many as 120 new asylums in England and Wales”; “homicide-rate-england-and-wales”; “in England and Wales 1837-2022”. It most often appears alongside United States, England, US.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: June 10, 2021
  • Last seen: May 24, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Your Book Review: Down And Out In Paris And London
June 10, 2021 · Original source
No other drugs are even mentioned. But that isn’t even the most shocking absence from Orwell’s picture of poverty. What struck me first about Orwell’s companions is that despite all of them being unemployed, half-starving wanderers without any social ties…none of them seem to be (extremely)mentally ill. Orwell never once suggests that these men are homeless because of any mental deficiency or disorder. He always maintains that they are just like people he knew in his ‘respectable life’, but poorer. Some are eccentric in the extreme, but nothing like many of the homeless one now sees on the streets of American cities. This is likely because in 1808, English parliament authorized every county to build it’s own asylum, and in 1845 it became compulsory for the counties to do so. And “by the end of the century there were as many as 120 new asylums in England and Wales, housing more than 100,000 people.”2 Now as to the conditions within these asylums, please consult someone who knows more about the history of mental illness than I do. Maybe you could start with Scott’s review of Madness and Civilization. But it at least seems a likely explanation for the utter and complete absence of the (extremely) mentally ill from Orwell’s Paris and London. Orwell never even mentions the problem. Likely it was a given to him that ‘tramps’ were mostly sane, able-bodied men, and that anyone that was truly insane would’ve been immediately locked up. I can’t be sure, because he never mentions mental illness or the asylum system at all. It’s as if it’s not even worth mentioning.
Inline links: 2, Madness and Civilization.
What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike?
June 29, 2022 · Original source
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/318385/homicide-rate-england-and-wales/ In Germany, there was slightly less attempted murder and slightly more completed murder, but nothing that could really be called a spike.
Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
May 24, 2023 · Original source
On the other hand, Marginal Revolution recently highlighted a paper finding that “in England and Wales 1837-2022 . . . there was never within this era any period of significant hypergamous marriage by women.”
Inline links: highlighted a paper